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The Fossil Girl

Mary Anning's dinosaur discovery

by Catherine Brighton · 1999

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In simple cartoon style, tells the story of a twelve-year-old English girl's discovery in 1811 of an ichthyosaurus skeleton.

Women paleontologistsPaleontologistsCartoons and comicsIchthyosaurusJuvenile literatureBiographyWomenChildren's fictionGreat britain, fictionWomen, biography, juvenile literatureDinosaurs, juvenile literatureWomen, biography