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Emborough Fissures

Emborough Quarries, Emborough.

Of great palaeontological importance, the site has yielded numerous remains of the unusual gliding reptile Kuehneosaurus latus and is the only known locality of the trilophosaur/procolophonid Variodens inopinatus.

Alternative Names: None recorded.

Notes: ref Robinson (1957). An earlier suggestion that the fissures may be part of Emborough Swallet are mistaken. Due to the rarity and importance of the deposit digging should be avoided.