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Figure 6


Figure 6. Palynomorphs recorded from the Tytherington fissures. Processing involved successive HCl and HF treatments followed by sieving at 20 µm and a further treatment in hot HCl to remove neoformed fluorides. No oxidation was required. The palynomorphs were mounted in Elvacite 2044 and the slides are curated in the collections of Bristol University Geology Museum. Each palynomorph name is followed by a palynological sample number (e.g. FP2.1), a BRSUG specimen number and England Finder co-ordinates (e.g. M29–3). In addition, all specimens are ringed. All x600 unless indicated; appropriate scale bars are given. (a) Calamospora tener, FP1.1, BRSUG 23860, N45–1/3. (b) Concavisporites toralis, FP2.1, BRSUG 23861, N23. (c) Deltoidospora auritora, FP2.1, BRSUG 23861, H26–1. (d) Granulatisporites subgranulosus, FP2.1, BRSUG 23862, F41–1. (e) Carnisporites megaspiniger, FP2.1, BRSUG 23863, K22–1. (f) Carnisporites spiniger, FP2.1, BRSUG 23864, L26. (g) Microreticulatisporites fuscus, FP2.1, BRSUG 23865, U40. (h) Uvaesporites reissingerii, FP1.1, BRSUG 23860, M39–4. (i) Deltoidospora minor, FP2.1, BRSUG 23866, L43–4. (j) Taurocusporites sp A, FP2.1, BRSUG 23867, M29–3. (k) Acanthotriletes varius, FP2.1, BRSUG 23868, S36–3. (l) Cycadopites, FP2.1, BRSUG 23861, P15. (m) Cingutriletes infrapunctatus, FP2.1, BRSUG 23865, W36–1. (n) Cingulizonates rhaeticus, FP2.1, BRSUG 23862, T44. (o) Carnisporites leviornatus, FP13.2, BRSUG 23869, J36–4, x400. (p) Limbosporites lundbladii, FP2.1, BRSUG 23864, L26–4. (q) Rhaetipollis germanicus, FP2.1, BRSUG 23861, N22–1. (r) Triancoraesporites ancorae, FP2.1, BRSUG 23868, Q43–3. (s) Krauselisporites reissingerii, FP2.1, BRSUG 23864, Q42–4. (t) Ricciisporites tuberculatus, FP2.1, BRSUG 23870, Q36, x400. (u) Protohaploxypinus hercynicus, FP2.1, BRSUG 23868, M31–3. (v) Lunatisporites rhaeticus, FP2.1, BRSUG 23865, D36–3. (w) Tsugaepollenites ?pseudomassulae, FP2.1, BRSUG 23861, F26. (x) Ovalipollis pseudoalatus, FP2.1, BRSUG 23865, P38–4. (y) Vesicaspora fuscus, FP2.1, BRSUG 23865, Q36–4. (z) Alisporites thomasii, FP2.1, BRSUG 23861, P26. (aa) Alisporites dunrobinensis, FP2.1, BRSUG 23865, Q38–1. (bb) Granuloperculatipollis rudis, FP2.1, BRSUG 23868, J42. (cc) Quadraeculina anellaeformis, FP2.1, BRSUG 23871, K36. (dd) Classopollis classoides, FP2.1, BRSUG 23865, S34. (ee) Vitreisporites pallidus, FP2.1, BRSUG 23861, G14. (ff) Gliscopollis meyeriana, FP2.1, BRSUG 23872, O31–2. (gg) Suessia schwabiana, BRSUG 23873, N19. (hh) Rhaetogonyaulax rhaetica, FP2.1, BRSUG 23861, E29–3. (ii) Rhaetogonyaulax rhaetica, FP2.1, BRSUG 23866, L36. (jj) Micrhystridium sp, FP2.1, BRSUG 23861, Q18–1. (kk) Celyphus stenlillensis, FP6.1, BRSUG 23874, E42–4. (ll) Dapcodinium priscum, FP2.1, BRSUG 23871, K36–1. (mm) Pterospermella australis, FP2.1, BRSUG 23861, R23. (nn) Tytthodiscus, FP9.2, BRSUG 23875, N37, x400. (oo) Cymatiosphaera polypartita, FP2.1, BRSUG 23870, L35–1, x400. (pp) Botryococcus, FP2.1, BRSUG 23865, G39–1, x400. (qq) foraminiferal test lining, FP2.1, BRSUG 23876, V45–3. (rr) foraminiferal test lining, FP2.1, BRSUG 23865, Q39.