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Tourist finds rare chunk of oldest sea crocodile
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Tourist finds rare chunk of oldest sea crocodile

So: a woman from Solihull named Heather Salt went to Lyme Regis just hoping to find a little ammonite, and instead stumbled across a 200-million-year-old jawbone fragment from one of the world's rarest prehistoric marine crocodiles. She thought it was a piece of wood with nails in it - which I find absolutely charming! The fossil is thought to be one of only 11 known specimens of Turnersuchus hingleyae, the oldest sea crocodile ever found, and it's now on display at Lyme Regis Museum. And here's the thing - Heather did find her ammonite in the end too, which makes this story just about perfect.
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