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Shivalik Fossil Park : ウィキペディア英語版 | Shivalik Fossil Park
Shivalik Fossil Park, also known as the Suketi Fossil Park , is a fossil park with a collection of prehistoric vertebrate fossils and skeletons recovered from the upper and middle Siwaliks geological formations of sandstones and clay at Suketi in the Sirmaur district in the Indian state of Himachal Pradesh. The park has a display of the fossil finds and also an open air exhibition of six extinct mammals formed in life-size models made of fibreglass and resins, in a natural ambiance of the Sivalik Hills environment of the Plio-Pleistocene era (circa 2.5 million years) from where the fossils were unearthed. There is also a museum, within the precincts of the park, where the fossils are curated and exhibited. It is Asia's biggest fossil park. The exhibits in the park are used for generating scientific interest in the public and for facilitating special international studies by visiting research scholars from all over the world, apart from tourism development. ==Location== The park is named after the Suketi village where it is located, at the very site where the fossils were found, in the Markanda Valley, at the foot of the Himalayas. It is at a distance of to the south west of Nahan, the district headquarters of Sirmaur district. Kala Amb, a small industrial town, is away on the Kala Amb-Bikramabad road. The park, extensively forested, is spread out over an area of at Suketi.〔 A tourism information desk is maintained at the park.〔
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