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Joseph Anning discovered the first scientifically recognized ichthyosaur remains. [2] 1812. Mary Anning found the rest of the original ichthyosaur skeleton discovered by her brother Joseph. [2] 1814. An anatomist with the Royal College of Surgeons named Sir Everard Home described the ichthyosaur discovered by
Two jawbones of gigantic ichthyosaur were discovered in 2016 [37] and 2020 [38] [39] in Lilstock and Somerset respectively, UK. Simple scaling would suggest that this ichthyosaur has an estimated total length of up to 26 meters (82 feet), the largest known to date marine reptile.
Temnodontosaurus (meaning "cutting-tooth lizard") is an extinct genus of large ichthyosaurs that lived during the Lower Jurassic in what is now Europe and possibly Chile.The first known fossil is a specimen consisting of a complete skull and partial skeleton discovered on a cliff by Joseph and Mary Anning around the early 1810s in the Dorset county, England.
Cast of the first known complete Ichthyosaurus specimen (originally referred to as Proteosaurus), which was destroyed during WW2. Ichthyosaurus was the first complete fossil to be discovered in the early 19th century by Mary Anning in England; [9] the holotype of I. communis, no coll. number given, [10] was a fairly complete specimen discovered by Mary and Joseph Anning around 1814 in Lyme ...
Lyme Regis, Dorset. Mary Anning [1] was born in Lyme Regis in Dorset, England, on 21 May 1799. [2] Her father, Richard Anning (c. 1766–1810), was a cabinetmaker and carpenter who supplemented his income by mining the coastal cliff-side fossil beds near the town, and selling his finds to tourists; her mother was Mary Moore (c. 1764–1842) known as Molly. [3]
Ichthyosauridae is an extinct family of thunnosaur ichthyosaurs from the latest Triassic and Early Jurassic (Rhaetian to Pliensbachian stages) of Europe, and possibly also from the middle Early Cretaceous (Hauterivian or Barremian stage) of Iraq.
The first one is C. piscosus, which Leidy named on the basis of several more or less complete vertebrae having been discovered in different mountain ranges of the state. [1] The holotype of C. piscosus is a block containing five incomplete dorsal vertebrae that was discovered in the New Pass Range , northwest of the city of Austin .
This is a list of the oldest ships in the world which have survived to this day with exceptions to certain categories. The ships on the main list, which include warships, yachts, tall ships, and vessels recovered during archaeological excavations, all date to between 500 AD and 1918; earlier ships are covered in the list of surviving ancient ships.