TIL that the first pre-cambriam #fossil, Charnia masoni, was originally discovered by a 15 years old girl named Tina Negus, who was discounted by her geography teacher saying precambrian fossils were impossible.
A year later it was rediscovered by a boy named Roger Mason, who also took a stone rubbing of the fossil. This time the discovery was taken seriously, and the species is even named "masoni" to this day after him.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charnia#Discovery

#fossils #precambrian #sexism #paleon