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Fossil record shows seas around Britain were once tropical

2016-06-21 13:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

EENews: Some 210 million years ago, Britain consisted of many islands, surrounded by warm seas. Europe at the time lay farther south, at latitudes equivalent to North Africa today. Much of Europe was hot desert, and at this point was flooded by a great sea the Rhaetian Transgression. Published in Proceedings of the Geologists' Association, the Bristol team's work is the most extensive study yet, based on more than 26,000 identified fossils, of the Rhaetian shallow sea sharks, bony fishes, marine reptiles,...

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