Testudoid and crocodiloid eggshells from the Upper Cretaceous Deccan Intertrappean Beds of Central India

摘要: Abstract Chelonian and crocodilian eggs eggshells are relatively rare in the fossil record as compared to those of dinosaurs avians. In India, prior present report, turtle have been reported from supposed Late Cretaceous infratrappean beds Duddukuru, Andhra Pradesh. Likewise, were described intertrappean Bombay whose assignment Maastrichtian age is not based on any diagnostic fossils. Here we report first definitive Kisalpuri, Dindori District, Madhya Pradesh (Central India). The testudoid though broadly comparable particularly radial structure, differ each other finer details such external surface ornamentation organization crystallites section. crocodiloid Central India distinct known having non-interlocking wedge-like ringed craters basal plate groups. Keeping view limited specimens available for study, referred oofamilies Testudoolithidae Krokolithidae, respectively.