Mary Anning

Found and correctly identified a sequence of major fossil specimens across her career -- the first correctly-identified ichthyosaur skeleton (1811-1812), the first complete plesiosaur skeleton (1823), and the first pterosaur skeleton found outside Germany (1828) -- along the dangerous, landslide-prone cliffs at Lyme Regis.

Developed self-taught fossil identification, preparation, and cataloguing skills, entirely outside any formal scientific institution, sufficient that professional geologists of her era regularly consulted her directly.

In the years after her father's death in 1810 left the family without its main income, took on a growing role in the family's fossil-collecting trade -- including, at around twelve, personally excavating the rest of the ichthyosaur skeleton whose skull her brother Joseph had found the year before.

Taking on a growing share of this responsibility, at that age and under that pressure, without any formal transition or institutional support, is part of the basis for the profile's proactive_agency score. Proactive Agency

Male scientists of her era repeatedly purchased, published, and received scientific credit for fossils she had found, cleaned, and correctly identified, without acknowledging her role -- and she continued the work regardless, across decades.

Continuing this work for decades despite a sustained, documented pattern of being denied credit is the basis for the profile's conflict_tolerance score. Conflict Tolerance