Also known as ST 660 890, ST 660890

Where: England, United Kingdom (51.6° N, 2.4° W: paleocoordinates 20.6° N, 6.5° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Carnian (237.0 - 228.0 Ma)

• Rhaetian age is based upon "non-reworked" palynomorphs and the lithology, both of which indicate age equivalence to the Late Westbury Formation (Lower Rhaetian), Penarth Group, of Whiteside (1983) and Whiteside and Marshall (1986). Tytherington fissure fills are not necessarily contemporaneous (Fraser 1994).

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fissure fill; limestone and green, red marl

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by J. Marshall & D. Whiteside in 1975

Collection methods: bulk, chemical, sieve,

• University of Bristol, Geology Department. The Fissure 2 site has been destroyed by quarrying, but uprepared blocks containing fossils are retained in the collections at Bristol. Greater than 1000 specimens.

Primary reference: J. E. A. Marshall and D. I. Whiteside. 1980. Marine influence in the Triassic "uplands". Nature 287:627-628 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 46889: authorized by Robin Whatley, entered by Robin Whatley on 25.01.2005, edited by Matthew Carrano and Franco Aspromonte

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