• DOI:10.1017/S0016756813000861
Corpus ID: 85736921

Mary Anning's legacy to French vertebrate palaeontology

@article{Vincent2013MaryAL,
  title={Mary Anning's legacy to French vertebrate palaeontology},
  author={P. Vincent and P. Taquet and V. Fischer and N. Bardet and J. Falconnet and P. Godefroit},
  journal={Geological Magazine},
  year={2013},
  volume={151},
  pages={7 - 20}
}

• P. Vincent, P. Taquet, +3 authors P. Godefroit
• Published 2013
• Biology
• Geological Magazine

Abstract The real nature of marine reptile fossils found in England between the 1700s and the beginning of the 1900s remained enigmatic until Mary Anning's incredible fossil discoveries and their subsequent study by eminent English and French scientists. In 1820, Georges Cuvier acquired several ichthyosaur specimens found by Mary Anning, now kept or displayed in the Palaeontology Gallery of the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle (MNHN) in Paris. Four years later, Cuvier obtained a plesiosaur… Expand

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