Dr Paul Davis
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She was an ammonite, which are an extinct type of squid-type creature that lived in a shell.
And that's what she was hoping to find.
I mean, this is a thousand, a million times better than that.
Once upon a time, there was a pessimist, an optimist and a sadist.
The pessimist was always afraid of the worst.
The optimist, on the other hand, hoped for the best and thought of the worst.
So this fragment is a piece of the jaw, the upper jaw, of creatures called Thalattosuchians.
They're a group that belongs to the crocodile group because we have to remember that today the crocodiles and alligators are just a small portion of what was available in the past.
And these Thalattosuchians were truly marine, crocodile-like animals that were ocean-going.
There aren't very many traces of this creature, are there, in the world?
No, no.
So this is a part of one of the world's oldest of the Thalattosuchian groups.
So we get them here in Dorset.
We've got about 11 specimens in total, one partial skeleton and quite a number of, well, 10 isolated fragments from this creature.
And tell us a bit more about how it was found.
Heather Salt, she's an amateur fossil hunter and she came across it not far from you.
Well, that's right.
Heather was actually taking part in one of our guided fossil walks where we take people onto the beach.
And she found it and showed it to the guide.
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