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Paleontology

Ammonite

Ammonite

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.

It belongs to the phylum: Mollusca and class: cephalopoda.

The specimen giant Ammonite is collected from Ariyalur, near Tiruchirapalli. Geologically it belongs to cretaceous period. The characteristic feature of the fossil ammonite is that it contains complicated types of suture line.

Fossil Rhinoceros

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 fragmented skull of a fossil rhinoceros was found in a well cutting in Sathankulam, Tirunelveli District, Tamilnadu. The specimen was donated by Thiru S.C.Jeyakaran, Hydrogeologist, Bangalore. The front portion is a original fossil and the rest is reconstructed by Dr. G.L.Badan, Head Palaeontology Laboratory, Deccan College of Post Graduate and Research Institute, Pune. Geologically, the fossil rhinoceros belongs to Pleistocene period.

Fossil Rhinoceros

Fossil Elephant Skull

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 crust by natural process.

The huge fossil skull of an elephant is collected from Rameswaram in 1932. It is a fossilised molar tooth of an elephant, washed on the shores of Rameswaram.

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