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Deepankar Sharda
Chandigarh, December 25
Panjab University’s Associate Professor Ashu Khosla from the Department of Geology, along with Dr Spencer G Lucas of New Mexico, US, has brought laurels as results of their extensive study on late cretaceous dinosaur nesting sites of peninsular India have been published in the Springer Nature book (Switzerland AG 2020) entitled “Late Cretaceous Dinosaur Eggs and Eggshells of Peninsular India: Oospecies Diversity and Taphonomical, Palaeoenvironmental, Biostratigraphical and Palaeobiogeographical Inferences”.
Working exclusively for 29 years, his work has received worldwide acknowledgement from palaeontologists, as it covers diverse issues such as evolution, diversity and biogeography of vertebrates (dinosaur eggs, skeletal material, mammals, crocodiles, turtles, fishes, frogs) and microbiota (ostracods, charophytes, gastropods and foraminifera) associated with the Cretaceous fragmentation and drift of the Indian plate.