Page 10 - Mary Anning and the Great Fossil Discoveries
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Timeline
1799 Mary Anning is born in Lyme Regis, Dorset, England.
1810 Her father, Richard Anning, dies, leading to difficult financial circumstances for the
family.
1811 She and her brother Joseph uncover the skull of an ichthyosaur. Later, she finds the
rest of the skeleton.
1819 Charles Konig of the British Museum purchases the ichthyosaur remains.
1820 Thomas James Birch, a customer of the Anning family, auctions the fossils he has
purchased from the family to help the Annings financially.
1821 William Conybeare and Henry De la Beche, of the
Geological Society of London, publish research that
describe the fossils that Anning has discovered.
1823 She discovers a complete fossilized plesiosaurus.
1826 She and Elizabeth Philpot moisten prehistoric squid ink,
which Philpot uses to create drawings.
1828 She discovers the first fossilized pterosaur remains
found in England, which scholars of the time misidentify
as a pterodactyl.
1829 She visits London, England, and sees her fossil
discoveries exhibited.
1830 She discovers more plesiosaurus remains, which sell to
the British Museum.
1847 She dies on March 9 from breast cancer.
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