Mary Ann Mantell

Mary Ann Mantell
Born
Mary Ann Woodhouse

9 April 1795
Paddington, London, United Kingdom
Died20 October 1869 (1869-10-21) (aged 74)
Occupation(s)fossil collector, lithographer
Known forDiscovering Iguanodon
Spouse
(m. 1816, divorced)
Children3, including Walter

Mary Ann Mantell (née Woodhouse; 9 April 1795[1] – 20 October 1869[2]) was a British fossil collector[3] and the wife of the British paleontologist Gideon Mantell. She is credited – although this is disputed – with the discovery of the first fossils of Iguanodon and provided several pen and ink sketches of the fossils for her husband's scientific description of the Iguanodon.[4]