3581 x 5346 px | 30,3 x 45,3 cm | 11,9 x 17,8 inches | 300dpi
Data acquisizione:
18 giugno 2009
Altre informazioni:
Mary Anning (May 21, 1799 – March 9, 1847) was an early British fossil collector, dealer and paleontologist. Her skill in locating and preparing fossils, as well as the richness of the Jurassic era marine fossil beds at Lyme Regis, resulted in her making a number of important finds. These included the skeleton of the first ichthyosaur skeleton to be recognized as such and the first two plesiosaur skeletons ever found, the first pterosaur skeleton found outside of Germany, and some important fossil fish. Her observations also played a key role in the discoveries that belemnite fossils contained fossilized ink sacs, and that coprolites, known as bezoar stones at the time, were fossilized feces. The geologist Henry De la Beche painted Duria Antiquior, the first scene out of deep time to be widely circulated, based largely on fossils she had found, and sold prints for her benefit. Her work played a key role in the fundamental and far reaching changes that occurred in the early 19th century in ideas about prehistoric life and the history of the earth.
