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Nicole Maria, known as Freya Francie after she left England, (March 24, 1864 -May 19, 1967) was a British-born girl, who at the age of 9 disappeared under mysterious circumstances in her home city of London only to be found alive 93 years later in Tashkent, Uzbekistan on May 19, 1967. She died on the same day she was found alive aged 103.

Biography
Nicole Maria was born to Anna Maria and Peter Hiker in an unknown location in rural England on March 24, 1864. They noted that Maria was talented from a young age and by the age of seven, she could play the ukelele, the piano and the flute and she could speak English and Spanish (her father was Spanish). Maria and her father moved to London after her mother died in 1871 and an engraving of Nicole Maria was made in early February 1873 by Nikalaous Jakob. Jakobs also commented on the short stature of Maria's height at the time - she was around 3 ft tall at the time. On September 14, 1873, Nicole Maria disappeared under mysterious circumstances in her home city of London.

Peter Hiker reported his daughter's disappearance on September 26, 1874 and after five days of searching, the Metropolitan Police found no traces of her whereabouts and she was declared dead in absentia in January 1890. An ambrotype photograph was taken of Maria in 1880 when she was aged 16, and this is the only known photograph ever taken of her. Nicole Maria left England at the age of 18, c. 1882, and she had lived in Paris, France until she was exiled for unknown reasons during the 1930s and was declared dead in France in 1932, before moving to Tashkent for the rest of her life around 1934, at around the age of 70. She supposedly lived under the name Freya Francie since she left England at the age of 18.

Nicole Maria was found alive in Tashkent, Uzbekistan on May 19, 1967 after being missing for 93 years, 8 months, 4 days but two hours later, she died from a heart attack aged 103.

Biography
Nicole Maria was born to Anna Maria and Peter Hiker in an unknown location in rural England on March 24, 1864. They noted that Maria was talented from a young age and by the age of seven, she could play the ukelele, the piano and the flute and she could speak English and Spanish (her father was Spanish). Maria and her father moved to London after her mother died in 1871 and an engraving of Nicole Maria was made in early February 1873 by Nikalaous Jakob. Jakobs also commented on the short stature of Maria's height at the time - she was around 3 ft tall at the time. On September 14, 1873, Nicole Maria disappeared under mysterious circumstances in her home city of London.

Peter Hiker reported his daughter's disappearance on September 26, 1874 and after five days of searching, the Metropolitan Police found no traces of her whereabouts and she was declared dead in absentia in January 1890. An ambrotype photograph was taken of Maria in 1880 when she was aged 16, and this is the only known photograph ever taken of her. Nicole Maria left England at the age of 18, c. 1882, and she had lived in Paris, France until she was exiled for unknown reasons during the 1930s and was declared dead in France in 1932, before moving to Tashkent for the rest of her life around 1934, at around the age of 70. She supposedly lived under the name Freya Francie since she left England at the age of 18.

Nicole Maria was found alive in Tashkent, Uzbekistan on May 19, 1967 after being missing for 93 years, 8 months, 4 days but two hours later, she died from a heart attack aged 103.

Biography
Nicole Maria was born to Anna Maria and Peter Hiker in an unknown location in rural England on March 24, 1864. They noted that Maria was talented from a young age and by the age of seven, she could play the ukelele, the piano and the flute and she could speak English and Spanish (her father was Spanish). Maria and her father moved to London after her mother died in 1871 and an engraving of Nicole Maria was made in early February 1873 by Nikalaous Jakob. Jakobs also commented on the short stature of Maria's height at the time - she was around 3 ft tall at the time. On September 14, 1873, Nicole Maria disappeared under mysterious circumstances in her home city of London.

Peter Hiker reported his daughter's disappearance on September 26, 1874 and after five days of searching, the Metropolitan Police found no traces of her whereabouts and she was declared dead in absentia in January 1890. An ambrotype photograph was taken of Maria in 1880 when she was aged 16, and this is the only known photograph ever taken of her. Nicole Maria left England at the age of 18, c. 1882, and she had lived in Paris, France until she was exiled for unknown reasons during the 1930s and was declared dead in France in 1932, before moving to Tashkent for the rest of her life around 1934, at around the age of 70. She supposedly lived under the name Freya Francie since she left England at the age of 18.

Nicole Maria was found alive in Tashkent, Uzbekistan on May 19, 1967 after being missing for 93 years, 8 months, 4 days but two hours later, she died from a heart attack aged 103.

Discovery and naming
The holotype, NMSA 141412, was discovered by Richard Harlan in what is now northern Syria in 1847. He sent the holotype, which consists of two partial caudal vertebrae and the left tibia, to Sir Richard Owen, who described them as "crocodile like" in 1848. Owen mentioned the fossils again in an 1860 paper, tentatively referring them to Reptilia indet.

The fossils were then placed in private collection until they were auctioned off to the highest bidder, palaeontologist Ronald Riyae, in 1913. He described the bones later that year and created the genus Guterisaurus in 1913. He believed Guterisaurus was a basal sauropod and he identified the fossils originated from the Guteri Formation, which was a marine deposit, which explains the fragmentary nature of the holotype. After Riyae died in 1965, the holotype was again auctioned off to the highest bidder, Alain Ghmer, who was also a palaeontologist. He studied Guterisaurus and compared it to other sauropods and published a paper on it in 1967, and he found it to be a sauropodomorph of uncertain affinities.

Ghmer later donated the holotype to the National Museum of Saudi Arabia, where it lay in storage until they were properly described by Iranev Burglayf and Anaa Burglayfin in 2015. Burglayf & Burglayfin (2015) also created the species harlani for the genus in honour of Richard Harlan, the discoverer of the holotype. Burglayfin (2021) described the paratype of G. harlani, NMSA 121231, which consists of both humeri, seven caudal vertebrae, a partial left femur and three ribs, which was discovered in the Hatay Province of Turkey in 1989.

Description
Based on the holotype, Guterisaurus was likely no longer than 7 m long and no taller than 3 m tall. It would have fed on low lying plants that other sauropods were too tall to reach, and Guterisaurus would likely have filled in the ecological niche of similar sized ornithopods such as iguanodontians.

Classification
Richard Owen classified the then unnamed Guterisaurus as an indeterminate reptile in 1860. When naming Guterisaurus in 1913, Ronald Riyae placed it within the Sauropoda. Subsequent studies such as Ghmer (1967), Burglayf & Burglayfin (2015) and Burglayfin (2021) placed Guterisaurus within Sauropodomorpha, with Burglayfin (2021) placing it as the sister taxon to the Idlib sauropodomorph within the newly created family Guterisauridae.

Paleobiogeography
Guterisaurus is known exclusively from the Late Jurassic (Oxfordian)-aged Guteri Formation, which outcrops in the Idlib Governorate and the Aleppo Governorate of Syria and the Hatay Province of Turkey, and based on Richard Harlan's field notes, the holotype was found in the Aleppo Governorate.

Guterisaurus would have coexisted alongside the Idlib sauropodomorph (NMSA 191918; three cervicals, 1 rib), the Hatay stegosaurid (NMSA 81219; a complete set of thagomizers, two dermal spines, partial right humerus and five teeth ) an indeterminate theropod that was likely a small coelurosaur (NMSA 191919 & NMSA 191920; 2 teeth ), an unnamed carnosaur (NMSA 191922; a claw ) an indeterminate species of pterosaur (NMSA 197817c; one vertebra ), two turtle species (Guteremys and Syriemys ) and an unnamed teleosaur (NMSA 191921; rostrum ).