Mignon Talbot

Mignon Talbot (August 16, 1869 – July 18, 1950 was an American paleontologist who in 1911 recovered the only fossils of the dinosaur, Podokesaurus holyokensis.

Born in Iowa City, she was a professor of Geology and Geography at Mount Holyoke College from 1904-1935.^[1] During her thirty-one years at Mount Holyoke College, she amassed a large collection of invertebrate fossils and Triassic footprints and minerals. However, the museum burned down and the specimens were destroyed, including the one extant skeleton of her Podokesaurus.^[2]

Reference

1. ^ Mount Holyoke College. Mignon Talbot Biography Verified 2011-01-06.
2. ^ Marilyn Bailey Ogilvie, Joy Dorothy Harvey. 2000. The Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science: Pioneering Lives from Ancient Times to the Mid-20th Century. Volume 2.

External links

• Biography
• Lost Dinosaur

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Name	Talbot, Mignon
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Date of birth	1869
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Date of death	1950
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