Totternhoe Stone Pit

Totternhoe Stone Pit
Site of Special Scientific Interest

Area of Search	Bedfordshire
Grid reference	SP982222
Interest	Geological
Area	2.1 hectares
Notification	1996
Location map	Magic Map

Totternhoe Stone Pit is a geological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Totternhoe in Bedfordshire. It is also a Geological Conservation Review site, and the local planning authority is Central Bedfordshire Council.^[1]^[2]

The site displays the base of the Totternhoe Stone. It is a lime mud with an extensive deposit of late Cretaceous shark teeth, some of species which have not been fully described, so it will be an important resource for further research. The lower levels contain larger teeth, and in upper ones there are some small rays.^[1]

The site is part of the Totternhoe nature reserve, managed by the Wildlife Trust for Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire, but there is no public access to the Stone Pit.

References

1 2 "Totternhoe Stone Pit citation" (PDF). Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 6 September 2015.
↑ "Map of Totternhoe Stone Pit". Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 6 September 2015.

Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Bedfordshire

Biological	Barton Hills Blow's Down Cooper's Hill Deacon Hill Dropshort Marsh Dunstable and Whipsnade Downs Fancott Woods and Meadows Felmersham Gravel Pits Flitwick Moor Galley and Warden Hills Hanger Wood Houghton Regis Marl Lakes Kings and Bakers Woods and Heaths Kings Wood and Glebe Meadows, Houghton Conquest Knocking Hoe Marston Thrift Maulden Church Meadow Maulden Heath Maulden Wood and Pennyfather's Hill Nares Gladley Marsh Odell Great Wood Potton Wood Pulloxhill Marsh Sandy Warren Smithcombe, Sharpenhoe and Sundon Hills Southill Lake and Woods Stevington Marsh Sundon Chalk Quarry Swineshead Wood Tebworth Marsh Tilwick Meadow Totternhoe Chalk Quarry Totternhoe Knolls Wavendon Heath Ponds Yelden Meadows

Geological	Biddenham Pit Double Arches Pit Kensworth Chalk Pit Nine Acres Pit Totternhoe Stone Pit

Coordinates: 51°53′25″N 0°34′36″W / 51.890191°N 0.576649°W / 51.890191; -0.576649

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