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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]
The type specimen was found by Mary Anning in 1829. This specimen was held at the Bristol Museum, and aside from the tail, was destroyed during The Blitz.The taxon was first described as Squalo-raia dolichognathos by Henry Riley in 1833 based on Anning's specimen, who identified it as a chondrichthyan with features of both sharks and rays, but this description was not publicly released until ...
Mary Anning, a professional fossil collector since age eleven, collected the fossils of a number of marine reptiles and prehistoric fish from the Jurassic marine strata at Lyme Regis. These included the first ichthyosaur skeleton to be recognized as such, which was collected in 1811, and the first two plesiosaur skeletons ever found in 1821 and ...
The lithographic print made by Georg Scharf based on De la Beche's original watercolour.. By 1830 Mary Anning was well known to the leading British geologists and fossil collectors for her ability to spot important fossils in the Jurassic limestone and shale formations around the resort town of Lyme Regis on the Dorset coast, and for her knowledge and skill in collecting, reconstructing and ...
It will also show how he followed in he footsteps of Mary Anning, the pioneering fossil collector of Lyme Regis during the first half of the 19th Century.
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 Regis [11] but was reported as lost by McGowan (1974) in his review of the ...
The role of Ruby Reynolds in the discovery has led to comparisons with Mary Anning, the 19th century British fossil hunter and anatomist who, among other things, discovered ichthyosaur fossils ...
Letter concerning the discovery of the 1823 Plesiosaurus, from Mary Anning. This timeline of plesiosaur research is a chronologically ordered list of important fossil discoveries, controversies of interpretation, taxonomic revisions, and cultural portrayals of plesiosaurs, an order of marine reptiles that flourished during the Mesozoic Era.