"Talbot worked on the paleontology of both vertebrates and . Her contributions to invertebrate paleontology included a revision of the s of New York State and the investigation of Stafford limestone, also in New York State. Her discovery of the approximately eighteen-centimeter dinosaur , in the Triassic sandstone near , established her reputation in vertebrate paleontology. She postulated that this small dinosaur was a bipedal carnivore."
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Mignon Talbot
(August 16, 1869 – July 18, 1950) was an American paleontologist, noteworthy as the first woman to discover and name a non-bird dinosaur. She became in 1904 the first woman to receive a Ph.D. in geology from Yale University and became in 1909 the first woman to be elected a member of the .
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