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Description: | Fossils from Triassic rocks are not so common as, for example, fossils from Jurassic rocks. During most of the Triassic, the climate was very hot and dry, especially in Northern Europe. Few animals could live comfortably under these conditions, therefore, fossils from this time are rare. The Muschelkalk of Germany and Spain does not contain a lot of fossils, but where they are found, they tend to occur in large numbers, as in this example, where the surface of the rock is covered in fossilised shellfish. | License: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/about/copyright/ | Rights holder: | Tyne & Wear Museums | Subjects: | fossils natural world | Source: | Tyne and Wear Imagine | Identifier: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/details/index.... | Go to resource |
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