File:Anning 1st ichthyosaur skeleton.jpg

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English: Drawing of a portion of the skeleton of an ichthyosaur (Temnodontosaurus platyodon[1]) found in 1812 by Joseph and Mary Anning.
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Source Paper written for the Royal Society in 1814
Author Everard Home (1756 - 1832)

This was the first such fossil to come to the attention of the scientific community in London, and would be the first to be named Ichthyosaurus, by Charles Konig of the British Museum in 1817.

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