Inspire Faculty
Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences
📍 1F5, AB-1
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Research Area
Vertebrate Palaeontology
Research Interests
My primary area of research is in the field of Vertebrate Palaeontology with a focus on dinosaur oospecies diversity, palaeobiology, taphonomy, and palaeobiogeography in the Indian context.
I primarily work on Titanosaur eggs from the Lameta Formation of central and western India in order to gain insights on reproductive biology of titanosaurs and preservation mechanisms of their clutches. I also work on eggshells from the intertrappeans of the central India where I am trying to understand their eggshell structure and if they were affected by any environmental changes. In addition to these I am also working on sauropod tooth and bone fossils from various Mesozoic strata of India.
INSPIRE Faculty
PhD, University of Delhi
CSIR SPM Fellowship
Fondation L'Oréal travel grant
University of Delhi Vice Chancellor’s travel grant
Harsha Dhiman and Guntupalli VR Prasad. An overview of recent research on the fossil biota of the Deccan Volcanic Province, India. Proceedings of the Indian National Science Academy, pages 1–15, 2024.
Harsha Dhiman, Vishal Verma, Lourembam R Singh, Vaibhav Miglani, Deepak Kumar Jha, Prasanta Sanyal, Sampat K Tandon and Guntupalli VR Prasad. New Late Cretaceous titanosaur sauropod dinosaur egg clutches from lower Narmada valley, India: Palaeobiology and taphonomy. PLoS One 18(1):e0278242, 2023.
Ranjit Singh Lourembam, Harsha Dhiman and Guntupalli VR Prasad. Preservation of Membrana Testacea in titanosaurid dinosaur eggshells from the Upper Cretaceous Deccan volcano-sedimentary strata of Central India. Geological Magazine 160(2):361–371, 2023.
Harsha Dhiman, Vishal Verma and Guntupalli VR Prasad. First ovum-in-ovo pathological titanosaurid egg throws light on the reproductive biology of sauropod dinosaurs. Scientific Reports 12(1):9362, 2022.
Harsha Dhiman, Suryendu Dutta, Sumit Kumar, Vishal Verma and Guntupalli VR Prasad. Discovery of proteinaceous moieties in Late Cretaceous dinosaur eggshell. Palaeontology 64(5):585–595, 2021.
Harsha Dhiman, Guntupalli VR Prasad and Anjali Goswami. Parataxonomy and palaeobiogeographic significance of dinosaur eggshell fragments from the Upper Cretaceous strata of the Cauvery Basin, South India. Historical Biology 31(10):1310–1322, 2019.