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Paleontology
Deinotherium  

 

 

Deinotherium

    The deinotherium is a representative of a specialised elephant family. It had a pair of pointed tusks in the lower jaw. It is not clear, what the tusks were used for.

 

 

 

 

Woolly Rhinoceros

    The woolly rhinoceros was 12 ft. long and 6 ft. high. The body was fully covered with hair.

 

 

Woolly Rhinoceros

 

 

Fossil wood

 

  

 

 

 

Fossil wood

    The fossils are the recognisable remains of  animals and plants which lived in the past geological ages and preserved in the rocks of the earth's crust by natural process.

    The huge fossil wood tree trunk displayed in the open air garden of this museum was collected by the Geological Survey of India in Tiruvakkarai, South Arcot District, Tamilnadu, and the Geological Survey of India donated to this Museum. Its length is about 160cm. Breadth is about 40cm. and thickness is about 15 cm. The large area contains fossil wood in Tiruvakkarai is fenced by Geological Survey of India and maintained as Geological monuments. Sathanur, near Ariyalur is another area in which fossil wood occurs in Tamilnadu.

 

 

Tribolite

    The fossils are the recognisable remains of animals and plants which lived in the past geological ages and preserved in the rocks of the earth's crust by natural process. The body of the trilobite is made up of three distinct parts known as the head, thorax and pigidium. The line drawing exhibits pertaining to Trilobites such as olenus, olenellus, paradoxides are on display.

Trilobite

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