Amravati (Maharashtra), Oct 19 (IANS) Fossilised dinosaur bones and eggs, measuring around 18-20 metres and weighing 10-13 tonnes, have been discovered from the Salbardi area, around 60 km from here in eastern Maharashtra, a geologist said here Saturday. The discoveries have been made after nearly six years of efforts by a team led by A.K.Srivastava and his doctorate student R.S.Mankar, both from the Department of Geology, SGB Amravati University. “These remains have been found in the sedimentary rocks, geologically known as ‘Lameta Formation’ deposited during the Maastrichtian (Late Cretaceous) period,” said Mankar. Following detailed studies of the discovery, they have interpreted that around 66-71 million years ago, there was a huge lake in which these Lameta sediments were deposited, Srivastava said. During that period, a species of dinosaur, Titanosaurus Colberti, belonging to the Sauropod Family also inhabited the region and laid the eggs, Mankar explained. The dinosaurian remains now exist in the form of small fragments of bones and complete eggs of the animals, which are firmly fixed in the rocks and hence irretrievable, said Mankar. Read more http://www.vancouverdesi.com/lifestyle/dinosaur-remains-found-in-maharashtra/649295/
