Mary Anning
Born	21 May 1799 Lyme Regis, Dorset, England
Died	9 March 1847 Lyme Regis
Occupation	Fossil collector and paleontologist
Children	none
Parent(s)	Richard and Mary Anning

This blue plaque is mounted on what is believed to be the site of the house where Mary Anning was born and had her first fossil shop, currently site of the Lyme Regis Museum.

Mary Anning (21 May 1799 – 9 March 1847) was an early 19th-century British fossil collector, dealer and paleontologist. She earned her living finding and preparing fossils, in the rich Jurassic marine strata at Lyme Regis, Dorset where she lived. She made many important finds. These included the first ichthyosaur skeleton to be correctly identified (Temnodontosaurus platyodon); the first two plesiosaur skeletons ever found (Plesiosaurus dolichodeirus); the first pterosaur skeleton found outside Germany (Dimorphodon macronyx); and some important fish fossils.