The late Triassic development of playa, gilgai floodplain, and fluvial environments from Upper Silesia, southern Poland

The numerous discoveries of disintegrated skeletons of large terrestrial vertebrates within several thin levels of the Upper Silesian Keuper initiated broad investigations into the palaeoenvironment and age of the bone-bearing sediments. Despite years of research, the depositional history of the Upper Triassic continental succession and its controlling factors are still poorly recognized. This paper reconstructs the depositional evolution of the...