The age, fauna and palaeoenvironment of the Late Triassic fissure deposits of Tytherington, South Gloucestershire, UK

@article{Whiteside2007TheAF,
  title={The age, fauna and palaeoenvironment of the Late Triassic fissure deposits of Tytherington, South Gloucestershire, UK},
  author={David I. Whiteside and John E. A. Marshall},
  journal={Geological Magazine},
  year={2007},
  volume={145},
  pages={105 - 147},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:129614690}
}
Abstract Important vertebrate faunas occur in fissure deposits of Late Triassic–Jurassic age in SW Britain. Although the faunas are well described, their age and palaeoenvironment remain poorly understood. One such fissure system was documented in detail during quarrying operations at Tytherington and has yielded in situ palynomorphs that add much information concerning its age and palaeoenvironment. Significantly, the Tytherington fauna is of the sauropsid type that has generally been dated as… 
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