Amateur Geologist's Jurassic Discoveries Go On Display ; Wiltshire Amateur Geologist Simon Carpenter's Rare Jurassic Finds - Including a 140 Million-Year-Old Crocodile That has Been Named After Him - Are Going On Display in Radstock Museum.

Western Daily Press › February 14, 2009

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Wiltshire amateur geologist Simon Carpenter's rare Jurassic finds - including a 140 million-year-old crocodile that has been named after him - are going on display in Radstock Museum.

Mr Carpenter's day job is promoting active lifestyles in the public health sector, but at weekends he can usually be found traipsing along the Jurassic seabed in a clay quarry in Westbury, Wiltshire, searching for interesting discoveries.

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Amateur Geologist's Jurassic Discoveries Go On Display ; Wiltshire Amateur Geologist Simon Carpenter's Rare Jurassic Finds - Including a 140 Million-Year-Old Crocodile That has Been Named After Him - Are Going On Display in Radstock Museum.

This includes the fossilised remains of the 4-6m Dakosaurus Carpenteri - one of the metriorhynchid crocodile group whic...

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