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One of the world's great dinosaur nesting grounds, in the rocks laid down just before the dinosaurs vanished.

Near the village of Raiyoli lie some of India’s richest dinosaur fossil beds, preserved in the Late Cretaceous rocks of the Lameta Formation — roughly 70 million years old, from the final chapter of the age of dinosaurs. The site has yielded large numbers of bones and eggs, and is regarded as one of the world’s major dinosaur nesting localities.

Among the animals known from these Narmada-valley rocks is Rajasaurus, a horned predatory dinosaur described from Indian fossils. The beds sit just below the Deccan lava flows, tying this region to the dramatic events at the very end of the Cretaceous.

Sources

• Geological Survey of India

A short reference note: this summary draws on third-party sources such as the Geological Survey of India and Wikipedia. In time I plan to give every geological feature its own learning-oriented write-up — with custom diagrams, graphs, and study pointers — as I’ve already done for the 11 locations that have an Instagram reel.