Akal Wood Fossil Park is a National Geological Monument of India located in Jaisalmer district, Rajasthan.
[5][6] The park contains fossils of Pterophyllum, Ptilophyllum, Equisetites species and dicotyledonous wood and gastropod shells of the Early Jurassic period.
There are about a dozen fossilised wood logs lying horizontally oriented in random directions, the largest of which is 13.4 m in length and 0.9 m in width.
[8] The petrified wood is indicative of lush forests in a tropical warm and humid climate thriving 180 million years ago.
[5] After the tree trunks were buried and petrified, geological activities are supposed to have occurred causing the shifting and upheaval of the basin, bringing the fossils to the surface.
[8] Buried in multiple layers of sandstones and limestones of geological Habur Formation, isolated teeth of five lamniform genera of large predatory sharks with serrated teeth were found at Kanoi village that lived during the early Cretaceous period — Cretalamna, Dwardius, Leptostyrax, Squalicorax, and Eostriatolamia, among these “Dwardius and Eostriatolamia may possibly be among the globally oldest, with the fossils being an astonishing 115-million-year old”.