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Fossil Museum, Varanavasi (Ariyalur)

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The Ariyalur area is one of India's richest fossil sites. This field museum at Varanavasi village, set amid badlands of ravines and sand towers, displays rocks, petrified wood, dinosaur fossils and nine varieties of ammonites from the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods. Contact: 04329 299828, fossilmuseumariyalur@gmail.com

Timings
10:30 am โ€“ 6:30 pm (closed Friday, 2nd Saturday and government holidays)

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