Late Cretaceous Dinosaur Eggs and Eggshells of Peninsular India - Khosla, Ashu;Lucas, Spencer G.
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This book documents analyses of the Late Cretaceous dinosaur nesting sites of the Lameta Formation at Jabalpur, Districts Dhar and Jhabua, Madhya Pradesh; Districts Kheda and Panchmahal (Gujarat); and the Pisdura, Dongargaon and Pavna sectors in the Chandrapur Districts of Maharashtra, which are exposed in India along an east-west and central axis. In this work, special emphasis has been given to the dinosaur nesting sites of the east-central Narbada River region, including its regional geology. The work was undertaken to provide detailed information concerning dinosaur eggs, eggshell…mehr

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This book documents analyses of the Late Cretaceous dinosaur nesting sites of the Lameta Formation at Jabalpur, Districts Dhar and Jhabua, Madhya Pradesh; Districts Kheda and Panchmahal (Gujarat); and the Pisdura, Dongargaon and Pavna sectors in the Chandrapur Districts of Maharashtra, which are exposed in India along an east-west and central axis. In this work, special emphasis has been given to the dinosaur nesting sites of the east-central Narbada River region, including its regional geology. The work was undertaken to provide detailed information concerning dinosaur eggs, eggshell fragments, nests and clutches found in the Lameta Formation of peninsular India. Prior to the present work there had been no detailed review of systematic work on the taxonomy, and of micro- and ultrastructural studies of dinosaur eggs and eggshells from the Lameta Formation.

The study documents the field and laboratory investigations that facilitated the reconstruction of the morphotaxonomy, models for the burial pattern of eggs and eggshells, taphonomic implications,and the palaeoenvironmental context and palaeoecological conditions during the Late Cretaceous at the time of the extrusion of the Deccan traps, which may have been partly responsible for the extinction of the dinosaurs. The need to follow a parataxonomic classification for Indian dinosaur eggs and eggshell types is very apparent, and this book addresses this aspect in some detail. The emphasis on the application of parataxonomic schemes is based on the description of new oospecies and their comparison with previously known forms. The present work has led to the recovery of numerous nests, many collapsed eggs and hundreds of dinosaur eggshell fragments from the localities situated near the east, west and central Narbada River regions. It will be of interest to academics and professional palaeontologists, and all students of dinosaurs.

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Prof. (Dr.) Ashu Khosla, received a M.Sc. in 1991 and Ph.D. in Geology from Panjab University in January, 1997 and later undertook a postdoctorate from Montpellier University, France in 1997-1998 on Indian and European dinosaur eggs and their palaeobiogeographical implications. Presently he is a Professor and Director/Head in the Department of Geology, Panjab University, Chandigarh. His research specializations are in Palaeontology (Micropaleontology, Vertebrate Paleontology, Palaeobotany, Paleobiogeography, Paleoecology, Paleoenvironments, Stratigraphy and Biostratigraphy). He has teaching experience of more than 25 years at the undergraduate and post-graduate levels in the following areas: Paleontology and Stratigraphy. His work has been acknowledged worldwide by palaeontologists and palaeobiogeographers, as it covers diverse issues such as evolution, diversity and biogeography of vertebrates and microbiota associated with the Cretaceous fragmentation and drift of theIndian plate. He has handled many international collaborative programmes and collaborated with many organizations i.e., Laboratoire de Paléontologie, ISEM, cc 064, Université Montpellier II, Place Eugène Bataillon, 34095 Montpellier, France; Museum of Paleontology, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA; Geosciences, Princeton University, Princeton NJ 08544, USA; Geology Discipline Group, School of Sciences, Indira Gandhi National Open University, New Delhi; Department of Geology, Lucknow University, Lucknow; Department of Geological Sciences and Museum of Natural History, University of Colorado, UCB 265, Boulder, CO 80309, USA; Instituto de Investigaciones en Biodiversidad y Medioambiente (CONICET-INIBIOMA), Quintral 1250, 8400 San Carlos de Bariloche, Río Negro, Argentina; New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA etc. He has to his credit several exciting fossil discoveries from the Late Cretaceous of India. Prof. Khosla's perseverance and commitment led to the first classification of Indian dinosaur eggs and their comparison with eggs from Europe and South America, the discovery of the Cretaceous-Palaeogene boundary (central India), discoveries of the biota from dinosaur coprolites, and discoveries of Cenomanian-Turonian and Maastrichtian theropod dinosaur skeletal material, exotic mammals, ostracods, charophytes, and planktic foraminiferans from Upper Cretaceous rocks. He has published several research papers in peer-reviewed national/international journals, apart from a few in press, in high impact factor journals, including two papers in Science and other journals, for instance. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Global and Planetary Change, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, Journal of Vertebrate Palaeontology, Geological Journal, Cretaceous Research, Historical Biology, Acta Geologica Polonica,etc. He has already successfully completed six research projects funded by the Department of Science and Technology (Government of India), New Delhi. He has published two important books. First on the global Cretaceous (Cretaceous Period: Biotic Diversity and Biogeography). The volume was published in the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin in 2016 and the second on the Indian Late Cretaceous dinosaur eggs of peninsular India in October, 2020 (Springer Nature, Switzerland). Dr. Omkar Verma is an Assistant Professor of Geology at the Indira Gandhi National Open University, New Delhi, India. He received his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Geology from the University of Jammu, Jammu and Kashmir, India. He is the recipient of a Senior Research Fellowship and Research Associateship of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, New Delhi. He also completed a research project funded by the Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India, New Delhi. He led several expeditions to the Cretaceous (145 to 66 million years ago)