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[[File:Dinosaur and Fossil Park.jpg|300px|thumb|right|Indroda Dinosaur and Fossil Park]]<br />
[[Image:Indroda eggs.JPG|thumb|right|300px|Fossilized Dinosaur eggs displayed at Indroda Fossil Park]]<br />
The '''Indroda Dinosaur and Fossil Park''' in Gandhinagar, [[Gujarat]], [[India]], is a park that houses fossilized remains and petrified eggs of dinosaurs. It is a man-made fossil park and not the actual nesting grounds where the dinosaurs lived. The eggs and fossils on display here are from the world's 3rd-largest dinosaur fossil excavation site and 2nd-largest hatchery at Raiyoli, Balasinor, Gujarat.<ref name="Juras">{{cite news|url=http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2004-11-17/science/27151303_1_dinosaurs-fossilised-existence|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121022170500/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2004-11-17/science/27151303_1_dinosaurs-fossilised-existence|url-status=dead|archive-date=22 October 2012|title= Gujarat&nbsp;– Jurassic Park of India|date=17 November 2004|work=[[The Times of India]]|accessdate=2008-12-20}}</ref> The Park was set up by the [[Geological Survey of India]]<ref name="Juras"/><ref name="guj">{{cite news|url=http://www.dnaindia.com/report.asp?newsid=1153006&pageid=0|title=Gujarat: the Jurassic Park of India |date=February 26, 2008|publisher=IANS|accessdate=2008-12-20}}</ref> and is the only dinosaur museum in the country.<ref name="guj"/><br />
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The park is run by the Gujarat Ecological and Research Foundation (GEER) and has been called India's [[Jurassic Park]]. The oldest record of dinosaur bone fossils is of middle Jurassic period, and they are found from Patcham formation of [[Kutch district|Kutch]] basin. The fossils which were found in Upper [[Cretaceous]] formations in the region date back 66&nbsp;million years. The eggs are of different sizes, some the size of [[round shot|cannonball]]s. [[Fossil trackway]]s of these gargantuan animals are also on display in the park.<ref name="Juras"/><br />
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Dinosaurs that are on display include ''[[Tyrannosaurus|Tyrannosaurus rex]]'', ''[[Megalosaurus]]'', ''[[Titanosaurus]]'', ''[[Barapasaurus]]'', ''[[Brachiosaurus]]'', ''[[Antarctosaurus]]'', ''[[Stegosaurus]]'' and ''[[Iguanodon]]''.<ref name="Juras"/> The park displays life-size models of the dinosaurs along with details of each period in which they existed and characteristics of the animals.<ref name="Juras"/><br />
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The fossils were found in the [[Songhir Bagh]] Basin, the [[Himatnagar]] basin of [[Balasinor]], south-eastern parts of [[Kheda]], [[Panchmahal]] and [[Vadodara]] districts of the state.<ref name="Juras"/><br />
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