GSI Foundation day celebrations: Geological Museum attracts students from all over

Hyderabad: On the occasion of 170th Foundation Day of Geological Survey of India (GSI), around 250 students from various schools and colleges were present at the Geological Museum here at Dr Willian King Museum, Rock garden, GSI, Bandlaguda, Hyderabad on Wednesday.

The Geological Museum has a vast collection of specimens, which include different rock types, minerals and fossils collected from different parts of Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka region.

Students of University College of Science, Saifabad, Osmania University, Indu International School and Bhashyam Blooms School were seen curiously and enthusiastically going around to gain more knowledge about different geological specimens, of which Rhynchosaurs attracted the maximum attention.

Rhynchosaurs were herbivovers, and at times abundant (in some fossil localities accounting for 40to 60 per cent of specimens found), with stocky bodies and a powerful beak.

Early primitive forms, like Mesosuchus and Howesia, were generally small and more typically lizard-like in build and had skulls rather similar to the early diapsid Youngina, except for the beak and a few other features.

Later and more advanced genera grew to medium to medium large size, up to two meters in length.