Mignon Talbot
Mignon Talbot (born August 16, 1869 in Iowa City , † July 18, 1950 ) was an American paleontologist.
Talbot graduated from Ohio State University with a bachelor's degree and a PhD in geology from Yale University .
She was Professor of Geology at Mount Holyoke College from 1904 until her retirement in 1935 . She put a large collection of fossils and minerals there, but they burned in a fire.
In 1910, near her college, she found the first specimen of Podekesaurus holyokensis, a small predatory dinosaur of the early Jurassic, which she first described in the American Journal of Science in 1911, at the urging of Richard Swann Lull . The skeleton (only incomplete, preserved without the skull) no longer exists, but a second specimen was attributed to the species in 1958. Classification in the genus Coelophysis was later advocated as the skeletons are very similar, and the classification is controversial to this day. She was the first woman to find a new species of dinosaur.
She was a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science .
literature
- S. Turner, CV Burek, RTJ Moody Forgotten women in extinct Saurian (man´s) world , in RTJ Moody, E. Buffetaut, D. Naish, DM Martill Dinosaurs and other extinct Saurians: a historical perspective , Geological Society Special Publication 343 , London 1910, pp. 125f
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Talbot, Mignon |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American paleontologist and geologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 16, 1869 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Iowa City |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 18, 1950 |