Tag Archive for 'Lameta Formation'

Field photograph of titanosaur clutch showing tightly grouped eggs with very little to no spacing between them. Image credit: Dhiman et al., doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0278242.

Paleontologists Find 256 Fossil Titanosaur Eggs in India

Jan 19, 2023 by Enrico de Lazaro

Paleontologists in India have documented 92 clutches containing a total of 256 fossilized eggs of titanosaur sauropods. Field photograph of titanosaur...

Field photograph of the pathologic ovum-in-ovo egg documented from the Lameta Formation of village Padlya, Dhar District, Madhya Pradesh, India. Two slightly partially broken circular eggshell outlines can be seen with broken eggshell fragments within. A crescent-shaped gap is characteristically present in the upper right part of the egg. Image credit: Dhiman et al., doi: 10.1038/s41598-022-13257-3.

Unique Titanosaur Egg-Inside-Egg Found in India

Jun 22, 2022 by Enrico de Lazaro

Paleontologists have found a fossilized egg within another egg — a condition known as ovum-in-ovo — of a titanosaurid dinosaur in central India....