Boulby Quarries
54°34′12″N 0°50′48″W / 54.57000°N 0.84667°W / 54.57000; -0.84667
Boulby Quarries (grid reference NZ745200) is a 40.3 hectare geological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Redcar and Cleveland, North Yorkshire, England notified in 1989. It is located close to the coast and the village of Boulby.[1]
In England SSSIs are designated by Natural England and Boulby Quarries is one of 18 SSSIs in the Cleveland area of search.[2] The site is identified as being of national importance in the Geological Conservation Review.
The quarries are wholly within the North Yorkshire and Cleveland Heritage Coast and partly within the North York Moors National Park and the historic North Riding of Yorkshire.
The fossil content of Boulby Quarry is particularly important with two plesiosaur species (Eretmosaurus macroptera and Thaumatosaurus zetlandicus), an ichthyosaur Ichthyosaurus crassimonus and the only Upper Lias pterosaur known in Britain, Parapsicephalus being found at the site. The fossil are found in the bifrons zone, and although not abundant, it is very different from surrounding fossil sites.[3]
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- Boulby Quarries
- Briarcroft Pasture
- Cowpen Marsh
- Durham Coast
- Hart Bog
- Hartlepool Submerged Forest
- Langbaurgh Ridge
- Lovell Hill Pools
- North York Moors
- Pinkney and Gerrick Woods
- Redcar Rocks
- Roseberry Topping
- Saltburn Gill
- Seal Sands
- Seaton Dunes and Common
- South Gare & Coatham Sands
- Tees and Hartlepool Foreshore and Wetlands
- Whitton Bridge Pasture
- Neighbouring areas
- County Durham
- North Yorkshire
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