Amateur fossil hunter uncovers rare fragment from the world's oldest marine crocodile

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A walker has stumbled upon an extraordinarily rare piece of prehistoric history while searching for fossils along the Dorset coastline.Heather Salt, an amateur enthusiast who joined a guided expedition at Lyme Regis, made the remarkable discovery of an upper jawbone belonging to the planet's most ancient known sea-dwelling crocodile.When she first spotted the specimen, Ms Salt believed she was looking at something far more mundane.She said: "I looked down and thought it was nails stuck into something", adding that the beach near an eroding old dump site contains numerous metal fragments.

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TRENDING Stories Videos Your Say Upon realising the object was actually stone, her suspicions grew, adding: "I really just wanted to find a little ammonite."The fossil represents one of just 11 specimens ever recovered from this particular creature, which roamed the seas approximately 200 million years ago.Casey Rich, who leads fossil walks for Lyme Regis Museum, recognised immediately that something...

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