Siwalik Fossil Park, Saketi, Sirmur District, Himachal Pradesh
contains rich collection of 2.5 million years old vertebrate fossils from Siwaliks.
It covers an area of about 1.5 sq. km at Saketi, in the Markanda valley of Sirmur
district, H.P. and was built to check indiscriminate destruction of fossil bones.
Some of these fossils are in possession of the British Museum, London, American
Museum of Natural History, New York, Indian Museum, Calcutta and elsewhere. The
park displays life-size fiberglass models of six of the prehistoric animals that
lived in the area 1 to 1.5 million year ago. The animals exhibit are giant land
tortoise, gharial, four horned giraffe, sabre-toothed tiger, large tusked elephant
and hipopolamid A large and rare collection of vertebrate fossils recovered from
Siwalik hills in Saketi and adjacent areas has been displayed in a field museum
in the park. The site has been developed to a panorama of Plio – Pleistocene period
(Ca 2.5 million years) through massive aforestation.
It is about five km northeast of Kala Amb on Kala Amb-Bikramabad road and 22 km
SW of Nahan, the district headquarter of Sirmur district, H.P.
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