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Mary Anning and her Ichthyosaur

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PART 1 Thomas Jefferson and his Ground Sloth fav.me/d7g6m1e  

PART 2 Mary Anning and her Ichthyosaur

PART 3 Charles Darwin and his Toxodon fav.me/d80hum8

PART 4 Gideon Mantell and his Iguanodon fav.me/d826xjg

PART 5 William Buckland and his Megalosaurus fav.me/d83zg9s 

PART 6 Hermann von Meyer and his Archaeopteryx fav.me/d86761e

PART 7 Georges Cuvier and his Mastodon fav.me/d88cp56 

PART 8 Edward D. Cope and his Dimetrodon fav.me/d89umu9 

PART 9 Othniel C. Marsh and his Triceratops fav.me/d8bp0tr

PART 10 Eduard Suess and his Struthiosaurus fav.me/d8e0aqc

PART 11 Richard Owen and his Gorgonops fav.me/d8g9cbf

PART 12 Johann Blumenbach and his Megaloceros fav.me/d8if1nn

PART 13 Barbara Rawdon-Hastings and her Diplocynodon fav.me/d8ks10o

PART 14 Wilhelm Lund and his Smilodon fav.me/d8lk4x6

PART 15 Lawrence Lambe and his Edmontosaurus fav.me/d8s02lr

PART 16 Edmond Hebert and his Gastornis fav.me/d90r8ay

PART 17 Joseph Leidy and his Direwolf fav.me/d9598c5

PART 18 Barnum Brown and his T-Rex fav.me/d977xsf

PART 19 Immanuel Walch and his Trilobites fav.me/d9a1qc9

PART 20 John Bell Hatcher and his Torosaurus fav.me/d9hq8sm

Mary Anning was born in 1799 in Lyme Regis. She was one of the earliest professional fossil collectors and contributed a lot to the field of Paleontology. She made her first great discovery at the age of 10, when she discovered the first complete skeleton of an Ichthyosaur. :wow:

After the death of their father, Mary and her brother Joseph collected fossils and sold them to feed the family. Collecting the fossils at the cliffs of Lyme Regis was very dangerous; Mary’s little dog Tray was killed by a landslide while he accompanied her.

Her second great discovery was the marine reptile Plesiosaurus Dolichoderius, the third the flying reptile Dimorphodon. Additionally she studied belemnites and coprolites and her reputation as an expert on fossils led to a great number of famous geologists seeking her advice, among them where Gideon Mantell, Charles Lyell and Adam Sedgwick. William Buckland and Richard Owen would even visit Mary and hunt for fossils together with her.

She was made an honorary member of the geological society.

For this drawing I chose an Ichthyosaur that Mary discovered in 1821. It fitted because its resemblance of a dolphin gave me a lot of possibilities. The Fish she is feeding is of the species Leptolepis – scientific analysis showed that Ichthyosaur fed on fish and squid, and since the Leptolepis was around in the era of the Ichthyosaur, I am sure he would find it tasty ;). Mary’s dress is based on this painting: upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia…

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kamion53

I think it's a better tribute to Mary Anning than the movie actually was.