Mary Anning was an English fossil collector, dealer, and amateur palaeontologist who became famous her finds in the Jurassic fossil beds along the English Channel at Lyme Regis in the county Dorset in Southwest England.  Her discoveries contributed to scientific thinking about prehistoric like and the history of the Earth.

Additionally, it is said that she was the inspiration for the 1908 tongue twister, “She sells seashells”, by Terry Sullivan.

She sells seashells on the seashore
The shells she sells are seashells, I’m sure
So if she sells seashells on the seashore
Then I’m sure she sells seashore shells.