What was the first major fossil Mary Anning correctly identified?
Brachiosaurus
Plesiosaur
Tyrannosaurus
Ichthyosaur
Answer
The answer, Ichthyosaur, refers to a marine reptile that lived during the Mesozoic era. It was one of the first extinct marine reptiles to be identified from a complete skeleton, thanks largely to the work of Mary Anning, an English fossil hunter from the early 19th century.
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At what age did Mary Anning find her first ichthyosaur skeleton?
Which era's fossil beds did Anning explore?
What type of rocks did Mary search through for fossils?
Which sedimentary rocks at Lyme Regis was Mary particularly known to search?
Mary Anning's finds contributed to a shift in thinking of what?
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