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Mary Anning: Fossil Collector, Paleontologist, and Heroic Spirit
Journal of Geek Studies jgeekstudies.org Mary Anning: fossil collector, paleontologist, and heroic spirit Rodrigo B. Salvador Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington, New Zealand. Email: [email protected] there is an ongoing movement to build a statue for her. Secondly, there is a movie called Ammonite (Lionsgate, 2020) that is a dramatic retelling of her story. While most paleontologists are happily supportive of the statue-building campaign, the community (and critics) was divided re- garding the movie, mostly due to Anning’s portrayal as a lesbian.2 Yep, people still get angry with those sorts of things. Anyway, I will not discuss the movie here, because I’m neither entitled to nor interested in dis- cussing dead scientists’ sexuality. Besides, I haven’t watched it. I think, however, that I am in a good po- sition to talk about another representation of Mary Anning in pop culture. As possibly the only – or one of the very few3 – profes- sional paleontologists invested in the Fate franchise,4 I dedicate this article to discuss Anning’s incarnation in Fate/Grand Order. Portrait of Mary Anning with her dog, Tray; the Golden Cap outcrop is shown in the background. Au- thor unknown, pre-1842; Natural History Museum, London, UK. Source: Wikimedia Commons; public FGO domain. Note that you can (SKIP) this section if you play FGO. If you’re a normal person, Mary Anning (1799–1847) was a British please continue reading for some context. fossil collector and self-taught paleontol- Fate/Grand Order (henceforth FGO) is ogist who made several important discov- a video game developed by Delightworks eries in the Jurassic rocks around her home (mobile version, 2014) and Sega AM2 (ar- in Lyme Regis. -
Mary Anning: Princess of Palaeontology and Geological Lioness
The Compass: Earth Science Journal of Sigma Gamma Epsilon Volume 84 Issue 1 Article 8 1-6-2012 Mary Anning: Princess of Palaeontology and Geological Lioness Larry E. Davis College of St. Benedict / St. John's University, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.csbsju.edu/compass Part of the Paleontology Commons Recommended Citation Davis, Larry E. (2012) "Mary Anning: Princess of Palaeontology and Geological Lioness," The Compass: Earth Science Journal of Sigma Gamma Epsilon: Vol. 84: Iss. 1, Article 8. Available at: https://digitalcommons.csbsju.edu/compass/vol84/iss1/8 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by DigitalCommons@CSB/SJU. It has been accepted for inclusion in The Compass: Earth Science Journal of Sigma Gamma Epsilon by an authorized editor of DigitalCommons@CSB/SJU. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Figure. 1. Portrait of Mary Anning, in oils, probably painted by William Gray in February, 1842, for exhibition at the Royal Academy, but rejected. The portrait includes the fossil cliffs of Lyme Bay in the background. Mary is pointing at an ammonite, with her companion Tray dutifully curled beside the ammonite protecting the find. The portrait eventually became the property of Joseph, Mary‟s brother, and in 1935, was presented to the Geology Department, British Museum, by Mary‟s great-great niece Annette Anning (1876-1938). The portrait is now in the Earth Sciences Library, British Museum of Natural History. A similar portrait in pastels by B.J.M. Donne, hangs in the entry hall of the Geological Society of London. -
World Heritage Nomination – Iucn Technical Evaluation Dorset and East Devon Coast (United Kingdom)
WORLD HERITAGE NOMINATION – IUCN TECHNICAL EVALUATION DORSET AND EAST DEVON COAST (UNITED KINGDOM) 1. DOCUMENTATION i) WCMC Data sheet: (19 references) ii) Additional literature consulted: Goudie, A. and Brunsden, D. 1997. Classic Landforms of the East Dorset Coast. The Geographical Association, Sheffield; and Ellis, N.V et al. (Eds.). 1996. An Introduction to the Geological Conservation Review. Joint Nature Conservation Committee, Peterborough. iii) Consultations: 2 external reviewers contacted; relevant officials from government, protected area agencies, and public institutions; private estate owners; geological associations; tourist operators; and other interest groups. iv) Field visit: February-March, 2001. Paul Dingwall, 2. SUMMARY OF NATURAL VALUES Located on the south coast of Britain, the nominated property comprises eight sections along 155km of largely undeveloped coast and countryside between Orcombe Rocks, near Exmouth in east Devon in the west, and Studland Bay, Dorset, in the east. The total area of the site is 2,550ha, 80% of which is cliffed coastline. The property has a combination of internationally renowned geological features considered by both palaeontologists and geomorphologists to be one of the most significant research sites for their respective fields of study in the world. The nominated site includes a near-continuous sequence of Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous rock exposures, representing almost the entire Mesozoic Era (between 251 and 66 million years ago), or approximately 185 million years of Earth history. The Triassic succession of mudstones and sandstones is over 1,100m thick, representing 50 million years of deposition. The sequence of Jurassic strata exposed between Lyme Regis and Swanage is among the best sections of marine Jurassic-age rocks to be found anywhere in the world. -
An Offshore Transgressive–Regressive Mudstone-Dominated Succession from the Sinemurian of Skåne, Sweden
An offshore transgressive–regressive mudstone-dominated succession from the Sinemurian of Skåne, Sweden Nils Frandsen and Finn Surlyk A Sinemurian mudstone-dominated succession was exposed until recently in the Gantofta quarry in Skåne, southern Sweden. The deposits are placed in the Döshult and Pankarp Members of the Sinemurian–Aalenian Rya Formation. Similar facies of the same age are widespread in the Danish Basin where they constitute the F-Ib unit (F-I member) of the Fjerritslev Formation. The Gantofta succession thus represents the easternmost extension of the environment characteris- tic of the Fjerritslev Formation and is essentially the only locality where it has been possible to study the facies of this formation in outcrop. Sedimentation seems to have taken place under rel- atively quiet tectonic conditions except for the possible fault-control of the basin margin. The lower part of the Gantofta section is of Early and early Late Sinemurian age. It represents the upper part of the Döshult Member and consists of muddy, lower shoreface sandstones, abruptly overlain by dark, bioturbated, fossiliferous mudstones with thin storm siltstones and sandstones. They are overlain by the Upper Sinemurian Pankarp Member which comprises red-brown, restricted marine calcareous mudstones with an upwards increasing number of storm siltstones and sandstones reflecting general shallowing and shoreline progradation. The succession spans the greater part of two simple sequences with a distal sequence bound- ary located at the boundary between the Döshult Member and the Pankarp Member. The exposed part of the lower sequence includes a thick transgressive systems tract and a very thin highstand systems tract. -
Jurassic (170 - 199 Ma Time-Slice) Time
Early Jurassic (170 - 199 Ma time-slice) Time ScaLe R Creator CHRONOS Cen Mesozoic Updated by James G. Ogg (Purdue University) and Gabi Ogg to: GEOLOGIC TIME SCALE 2004 (Gradstein, F.M., Ogg, J.G., Smith, A.G., et al., 2004) and The CONCISE GEOLOGIC TIME SCALE (Ogg, J.G., Ogg, G., and Gradstein, F.M., 2008) Paleozoic Sponsored, in part, by: Precambrian ICS Based, in part, on: CENOZOIC-MESOZOIC BIOCHRONOSTRATIGRAPHY: JAN HARDENBOL, JACQUES THIERRY, MARTIN B. FARLEY, THIERRY JACQUIN, PIERRE-CHARLES DE GRACIANSKY, AND PETER R. VAIL,1998. Mesozoic and Cenozoic Sequence Chronostratigraphic Framework of European Basins in: De Graciansky, P.- C., Hardenbol, J., Jacquin, Th., Vail, P. R., and Farley, M. B., eds.; Mesozoic and Cenozoic Sequence Stratigraphy of European Basins, SEPM Special Publication 60. Standard Geo- Ammonites Sequences Ammonites Sequences Smaller Benthic Foraminifers Larger Benthic Foraminifers Calcareous Nannofossils Dinoflagellate Cysts Radiolarians Belemnites Brachiopods Ostracodes Charophytes Stage Age Chronostratigraphy magnetic North Atlantic Tethys Age Polarity Sequences Boreal Sequences T-R Major T-R Period Epoch Stage Substage Boreal Boreal T-R Cycles Tethyan Global, Tethyan Cycles Cycles Zones Tethyan markers Zones Zonal Markers Zonal Markers Zones Boreal Zonal Markers Other Boreal Nannofossils Zones Zonal Markers Other Dinocysts Tethyan Dinocysts Zones Zonal Markers NW Europe Boreal Tethyan Boreal Ostracodes Tethyan Ostracodes Markers Lt. Bajoc. Strenoceras niortense Teloceras banksi Strenoceras niortense Teloceras banksi DSJ14 Lithodinia valensii Belemnopsis Lissajouthyris Lissajouthyris [un-named] 169.8 Stephanolithion speciosum Mancodinium semitabulatum, 169.8 L. galeata mg P., speciosum Durotrigia daveyi, Phallocysta apiciconus matisconensis matisconensis Glyptocythere scitula Teloc. blagdeni Bj3 Telo. blagdeni Bj3 NJ10 Andromeda depressa, G. -
Jahrbuch Der Geologischen Bundesanstalt
ZOBODAT - www.zobodat.at Zoologisch-Botanische Datenbank/Zoological-Botanical Database Digitale Literatur/Digital Literature Zeitschrift/Journal: Jahrbuch der Geologischen Bundesanstalt Jahr/Year: 1995 Band/Volume: 138 Autor(en)/Author(s): Dommergues Jean-Louis, Meister Christian, Böhm Florian Artikel/Article: New Data on Austroalpine Liassic Ammonites from the Adnet Quarries and Adjacent Areas (Oberösterreich, Northern Calcareous Alps) 161-205 ©Geol. Bundesanstalt, Wien; download unter www.geologie.ac.at JAHRBUCH DER GEOLOGISCHEN BUNDESANSTALT Jb. Geol. B.-A. ISSN 0016–7800 Band 138 Heft 2 S. 161–205 Wien, August 1995 New Data on Austroalpine Liassic Ammonites from the Adnet Quarries and Adjacent Areas (Oberösterreich, Northern Calcareous Alps) JEAN-LOUIS DOMMERGUES, CHRISTIAN MEISTER & FLORIAN BÖHM*) 17 Text-Figures and 10 Plates Austria Eastern Alps Austroalpine Liassic Österreichische Karte 1 : 50.000 Ammonites Blätter 63, 64, 93, 94 Biostratigraphy Contents Zusammenfassung ...................................................................................................... 161 Abstract ................................................................................................................. 162 Résumé ................................................................................................................. 162 1. Introduction ............................................................................................................. 162 2. Regional Setting ........................................................................................................ -
New Data About the Age and the Stratigraphical Position in the Cretaceous Wildflish of the Olistolith from Praşca Peak (Rarău Syncline, Eastern Carpathians, Romania)
ACTA PALAEONTOLOGICA ROMANIAE V. 5 (2005), P. 483-491 NEW DATA ABOUT THE AGE AND THE STRATIGRAPHICAL POSITION IN THE CRETACEOUS WILDFLISH OF THE OLISTOLITH FROM PRAŞCA PEAK (RARĂU SYNCLINE, EASTERN CARPATHIANS, ROMANIA) Paul ŢIBULEAC1 REZUMAT: Lucrarea prezintă primele rezultate din cercetarea recentă a olistolitului din dealul Praşca (Sinclinalul Rarău, Carpaţii Orientali) şi este fundamentată pe o faună de amoniţi cu valoarea biostratigrafică, unii dintre taxonii figuraţi fiind semnalaţi pentru prima dată în acest punct fosilifer: Paracoroniceras lyra, Agassiceras scipionianum, Euagassiceras sauzeanum (=E. resupinatus), E. spinaries, Arnioceras densicosta, Caenisites cf. brooki, Eparietites denotatus, Asteroceras cf. suevicum, A. cf. involutum, Echioceras raricostatoides, Leptechioceras meigeni, Paltechioceras boehmi, Epideroceras lorioli etc. O altă noutate este prelevarea unor amoniţi in situ, spre deosebire de toate faunele semnalate de cercetătorii anteriori. Din interpretarea datelor faunistice rezultă argumentarea unor noi biozone/ subbiozone index ale Sinemurianului, poziţia răsturnată a olistolitului în cadrul wildflişului cretacic şi posibilitatea prezenţei Hettangianului, la partea inferioară, respectiv a Pliensbachianului, la partea superioară a stratelor (dedusă din corelarea exemplarelor prelevate in situ cu extinderea în relief a olistolitului). ABSTRACT: Recent results of the researches on the olistolith from Praşca Peak (Rarău Syncline, Eastern Carpathians) are presented. The paper is based on an ammonite fauna with taxon-index -
1 the Literature on Triassic, Jurassic and Earliest Cretaceous Dinoflagellate Cysts: 1 Supplement Five 2 3 James B. Riding 4
1 The literature on Triassic, Jurassic and earliest Cretaceous dinoflagellate cysts: 2 supplement five 3 4 James B. Riding 5 6 British Geological Survey, Keyworth, Nottingham NG12 5GG, United Kingdom 7 8 CONTACT James B. Riding email [email protected] 9 10 ABSTRACT 11 Since the publication of five literature compilations issued between 2012 and 2020, 63 further 12 published contributions on Triassic, Jurassic and earliest Cretaceous (Berriasian) 13 dinoflagellate cysts have been discovered, or were issued in the last 14 months (i.e. between 14 February 2019 and March 2020). These studies are on North Africa, Southern Africa, East 15 Arctic, West Arctic, east and west sub-Arctic Canada, China and Japan, East Europe, West 16 Europe, the Middle East, and sub-Arctic Russia west of the Ural Mountains, plus multi- 17 region studies and items with no geographical focus. The single-region studies are mostly 18 focused on Africa, the Arctic, Europe and the Middle East. All the 63 publications are listed 19 herein with doi numbers where applicable, and a description of each item as a string of 20 keywords. 21 22 KEYWORDS dinoflagellate cysts; earliest Cretaceous (Berriasian); Jurassic; literature 23 compilation and analysis; Triassic; worldwide 24 25 26 1. Introduction 27 28 The literature on Triassic to earliest Cretaceous (Berriasian) dinoflagellate cysts is relatively 29 extensive, and it has been compiled and reviewed by Riding (2012, 2013, 2014, 2019a, 30 2020). These five items listed 1347, 94, 89, 266 and 93 publications respectively on this 31 topic, with each citation followed by a string of keywords detailing the scope of these 1889 32 studies. -
Callovian (Jurassic) Ammonites from the United States and Alaska
Callovian (Jurassic) Ammonites from the United States and Alaska Part 1. Western Interior United States GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER 249-A Callovian (Jurassic) Ammonites from the United States and Alaska Part 1. Western Interior United States By RALPH W. IMLAY GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER 249-A Descriptions and illustrations of cephalopods of Late Jurassic age UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE, WASHINGTON : 1953 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Oscar L. Chapman, Secretary GEOLOGICAL SURVEY W. E. Wrather, Director For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U. S. Government Printing Office Washington 25, D. C. CONTENTS Page Page Abstract -—--—---—-——————_—————__________.._____.„__.______ 1 Ecologic considerations—Continued Introduction --——————————————.._____________._„._.„___ 1 Conditions of deposition—— _.____.__———-——.——— 9 Biologic analysis ——————.——__——._____.___.._____„_„_____ 1 Conglomerate —...— ——————————_.., 9 Stratigraphic summary ———————._.__——____.____________ 4 Sand ——_———————————————— — 9 Faunal zones and correlations————..__————_.._——— 5 Marine siltstone and shale.—————-—_——— 10 Arcticoceras codyense zone..————.._______....——_„ 5 Limestone -——————_.-_————————.——— 10 Gowericeras costidensum zone____—._...„——_.——_——— 7 Other types of sediment———————————— 10 Gowericeras subitum zone————_-.........._..._„„........ 7 Ammonite distribution and associations—————— 11 Kepplerites tychonis zone.__————————_———. 7 Geographic distribution - - ———————————————— 14 Kepplerites mcleami zone.—————„___„..—.............. 7 Summary of results--------———————————————— 17 Comparisons with other faunas————____........„—....„.. 8 Systematic descriptions ———.—_.————————— 18 Ecologic considerations —————————_——.__..._.... 8 References ———————————————————— ———. 34 Sources of sediment———_——.._ _„__..—_———._.. 8 Index -.-—————————.———————-—-—--——— 37 ILLUSTRATIONS [Plates 1-24 follow index] PLATE 1. Xenocephalites and Lilloettia 2-4. Arcticoceras 5. Cosmoceras and Arcticoceras 6,7. Cadoceras 8, 9. -
Mesozoic Holcoptera (Coleoptera) from England and the United States
Kelly, Richard S, Ross, Andrew and Davidson, Philip (2017) Mesozoic Holcoptera (Coleoptera) from England and the United States. Proceedings of the Geologists' Association, 128 (4). pp. 659-674. ISSN 0016-7878 DOI: 10.1016/j.pgeola.2017.05.009 http://repository.nms.ac.uk/1893 Deposited on: 20 September 2017 NMS Repository – Research publications by staff of the National Museums Scotland http://repository.nms.ac.uk/ Proceedings of the Geologists’ Association 128 (2017) 659–674 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Proceedings of the Geologists’ Association journa l homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/pgeola Mesozoic Holcoptera (Coleoptera: Coptoclavidae) from England and the United States a,b, b,c d Richard S. Kelly *, Andrew J. Ross , Philip Davidson a School of Earth Sciences, University of Bristol, Life Sciences Building, Tyndall Avenue, Bristol, BS8 1TQ, UK b Department of Natural Sciences, National Museum of Scotland, Chambers Street, Edinburgh, EH1 1JF, UK c Department of Earth Sciences, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London, SW7 5BD, UK d Charmouth Heritage Coast Centre, Lower Sea Lane, Charmouth, Dorset, DT6 6LL, UK A R T I C L E I N F O A B S T R A C T Article history: Received 29 December 2016 The impact of mass extinctions on insect evolution is debated, so investigating taxa that span a crisis is Received in revised form 3 May 2017 important for understanding such large-scale environmental perturbations. The beetle genus Holcoptera Accepted 18 May 2017 has been found in deposits from the Late Triassic: Norian to the Early Jurassic: Sinemurian of England and Available online 27 June 2017 the United States, and possibly Italy. -
Ammonites Were Probably Eaten by Fellow Cephalopods 3 December 2010, by Lin Edwards
Ammonites were probably eaten by fellow cephalopods 3 December 2010, by Lin Edwards shell in place. A bite at this point would have severed the muscles and allowed the body to be drawn out of the shell. Any predator producing the bite marks would need to have been precise, and must have been capable of grabbing hold of the ammonite and manipulating it into the right position for the kill. One of the authors of the paper, Paddy Howe, a geologist with the Lyme Regis Museum, said modern cephalopods are perfectly capable of the kind of adept behavior required, and a beaked squid could certainly be the culprit, since the bite marks are consistent with a beak. Photograph of the ammonite Asteroceras obtusum taken by Dlloyd. The specimen is from the Jurassic Lower Lias Formation, Obtusum Zone. Image: Wikipedia. Another possibility is a gas bubble between the body and the shell, but as Richard Edmonds of the Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site points out, this is a much less likely explanation. Depressions (PhysOrg.com) -- Fossilized ammonites found with made in this way would be expected to contain bite marks in similar places on their shells suggest crushed shell, but Mr Edmonds said he had never they were eaten by other cephalopods such as seen a fossil like that. Shell fragments would also beaked squid, according to new research be expected if the marks were made after the published in the Proceedings of the Yorkshire animal had died, and the marks would not all be in Geological Society. the same place on the shell. -
GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER 1148 Early Jurassic Ammonites from Alaska
GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER 1148 Early Jurassic Ammonites from Alaska By RALPH W. IMLAY GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER 1148 Studies of Early Jurassic ammonites from Alaska provide close correlations with Lower Jurassic ammonite zones in Europe and with ammonite successions elsewhere in the world UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE, WASHINGTON : 1981 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR JAMES G. WATT, Secretary GEOLOGICAL SURVEY Doyle G. Frederick, Acting Director Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Imlay, Ralph Willard, 1908- Early Jurassic ammonites from Alaska. (Geological Survey professional paper ; 1148) Bibliography: p. Supt. of Docs, no.: I 19.16:1148 Includes index. 1. Ammonoidea. 2. Paleontology Jurassic. 3. Paleontology Alaska. I. Title. II. Series. QE807.A51585 564'.53 81-607901 AACR2 For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office Washington, D.C. 20402 CONTENTS Page Abstract _____________________________________________——— 1 Introduction ______________________________________________ 2 Biologic analysis ___________________________________________ 2 Biostratigraphic summary _____________________________________ 4 Northern Alaska _________________________________________ 4 East-central Alaska ________________________________________ 6 Southern Alaska _________________________________——————— 7 Wrangell Mountains _____________________________________ 7 Talkeetna Mountains ____________________________________ 7 Chulitna River area _____________________________________