00:00 Hello my name is Mark Kemp I'm the Yorkshire Fossil Hunter. So this is a crocodile burn block which I found.
00:07 I was out collecting Whitby on the Yorkshire coast and I was on my way back to the van and I stumbled across this quite large boulder.
00:15 I had a look on the edges and I could see a load of burn and instantly I knew it was crocodile.
00:19 So I brought it home to my workshop and I spent a good 30-40 hours cleaning it with pneumatic tools and it revealed some lovely lovely crocodile burns.
00:28 We've got a huge rib here, we've got some leg burns, we've got a lovely vertebrae and all of these little plates what you can see with the holes in, these are scopes.
00:39 They're like modern day armour plates on what you see on crocodiles. So all together it's a really really nice assembly of Jurassic Age crocodile burns.
00:47 Roughly around 180-190 million years old. I was out collecting with a friend, I was getting loads of badminton ice and I'm on the way back I had a really heavy bag and I walked between two big boulders that I hadn't seen before.
01:00 And this was just stuck in between the two big boulders. So I had to empty my bag to fit this one in because as you can imagine it weighs a lot.
01:09 On the edge I could see a load of burn sticking out and straight away it stood out to me as a crocodile burn. So as you can imagine I was doing cartwheels on the beach.
01:17 So crocodile burn does get discovered but it is quite rare. The best example is in the Whitby Museum. They've got a pretty much complete crocodile in there.
01:25 But my scopes are a little bit bigger than their scopes. Sorry museum but mine's a bigger specimen than yours.
01:32 Especially box this size with crocodile in. Crocodile on the Yorkshire coast is quite rare so to get an assembly like this is quite incredible really.
01:40 Right so what's really really special about this item is just the assembly. The way it looks aesthetically is so pleasing on the eye.
01:48 We've got a complete rib here. So this is really really rare to get a complete rib from a crocodile.
01:54 The leg burns are really really well preserved. The vertebrae is by far one of the nicest vertebrae's I've ever seen.
02:02 And then again these scopes, they're really really large for crocodile scopes on the Yorkshire coast.
02:08 And they're really really well preserved. You can see all of the beautiful bone structure in between all the little scope holes.
02:15 So yeah it's just a really nice aesthetic piece.
02:19 So this is going in the Mark Kent collection for the foreseeable future.
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