Jaisalmer, Aug. 25 -- A fossil expected to be of a 201.4-million-year-old phytosaur, a crocodile-like reptile that coexisted with dinosaurs, has been discovered in Jaisalmer, Rajasthan, with experts hailing the discovery as one of the most significant fossil finds in India's geological history.

Calling the discovery a major paleontological breakthrough, Dean of the Faculty of Earth System Science at Jodhpur's Jai Narain Vyas University, VS Parihar, on Monday, stated that after England, India is the only country to make a Jurassic-era discovery.

"It is a crocodile that lived with the dinosaurs, and it mostly lived in the forests near the river or the seashores... After England, only India has found such a Jurassic-era discovery... If thi...