Early Mississippian sandy siltstones preserve rare vertebrate fossils in seasonal flooding episodes

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This study is a contribution to the TW:eed Project (Tetrapod World: early evolution and diversification), a major research programme investigating the rebuilding of Carboniferous ecosystems following a mass extinction at the end of the Devonian (Smithson et al., 2012). This study was funded by NERC Consortium Grant ‘The Mid-Palaeozoic biotic crisis: setting the trajectory of tetrapod evolution’ led by Professor Jenny Clack (University Museum of Zoology, Cambridge) and involving the Universities of Cambridge (NE/J022713/1), Leicester (NE/J020729/1), Southampton (NE/J021091/1), the British Geological Survey (NE/J021067/1) and the National Museum of Scotland.