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Anning, Mary (1799–1847)| English fossil collector. In 1811 she discovered in a Dorset cliff the fossil skeleton of an ichthyosaur, now in the Natural History Museum, London. She also discovered the first plesiosaur in 1821 and Dimorphodon, the first pterodactyl, in 1828. |
| Born in Lyme Regis, Dorset, she was the daughter of a carpenter and vendor of fossil specimens. |
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