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The Fauna of the Rhaetic Beds in South Nottinghamshire

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

M. R. W. Johnson
Affiliation:
(University of Nottingham)

Abstract

The Rhaetic section at Newark is described and compared with sections further south. The Lower Rhaetic is locally sub-zoned by constant bone-bed horizons. In the south-west of the area a much richer fauna occurs and the zone-fossil Pteria contorta appears lower in the succession. The explanation offered is that a lagoon phase existed in the more northerly district.

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1950

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