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<p></p><p>This book&nbsp;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&nbsp;axis.&nbsp;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&nbsp;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.&nbsp;</p>

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