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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
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]
In the Posidonia Shale at Holzmaden, dating from the early Jurassic, already in the early nineteenth century, the first ichthyosaur skeletons had been found. [29] [30] [31] During the latter half of the century, the rate of discovery increased to a few hundred each year. Ultimately, over four thousand were uncovered, forming the bulk of ...
Paleontologist Mary Anning and her older brother, Joseph, discovered the first known ichthyosaur fossils in 1811 and 1812, decades before the word dinosaur was even part of our lexicon. Since then ...
Payne's thesis earned her the first Ph.D. in astronomy at Radcliffe College. This was an incredible achievement since universities like Harvard would not give doctorate degrees to women at the time.
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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 ...
Temnodontosaurus is historically the very first ichthyosaur to have been scientifically described. [9] [2]: 1 Around 1810, [a] a certain Joseph Anning discovered the first skull of the taxon on the cliffs of Black Ven, between the town of Lyme Regis and the village of Charmouth, two localities located in the county of Dorset, in the south of England.