Joan Wiffen

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Joan Wiffen

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Introduction		Joan Wiffen is a famous fossil hunter in New Zealand
Paragraph 2	Early life	Born in ?? Lived where??  Married to…?? Kids??  What was her job?? First fossil she ever had was given an Ammonite (fossil of an ancient squid) that made her interested in finding fossils.
Paragraph 3	Discovering fossils	First in NZ. 1975. Mangahouanga Stream in Hawke’s Bay. dinosaur tailbone from a theropod.  From six different species. Joan and family and friends.  Fossils were in rocks, used some special tools to split the rocks open, carried it to her car.
Paragraph 4	Changing ideas about fossils	An Australian paleontologist Dr Ralph Molnar confirmed it was a dinosaur bone in 1980.  Other people started looking for fossils and found some - page 24.
Paragraph 5	Later life	Honorary doctorate in 1994.  Died in ?? She is remembered - her fossils are kept safe. Some are at the University of Auckland, some are at National Paleontological collections at GNS Science in Lower hutt. The first one she found is on display at Te Papa.
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Joan Wiffen is a famous fossil hunter in New Zealand.

She was born in 4 February 1922 and lived in Hawkes Bay,

she is married to Pont Wiffen and they had 2 children, her job

is being a fossil hunter.

Joan’s first ever fossil she ever had was given an Ammonite

which made her interested in finding fossils. In 1975

Joan found a tailbone from a theropod and she found it

in Mangahouanga Stream. She found it was she used

different tools to split rocks open. She went on to find more

fossils from six different species.

In 1980 a Australian paleontologist Dr Ralph Molnar

confirmed that it was a dinosaur bone. Other people

started searching for fossil and a man called Dr Greg

Browne and he found a Dinosaur footprint in Nelson

another man named Jeffery Stilwell found  Several dinosaur

bones in the Chatham Islands and another named Brendan Hayes

found a very small finger bone of a theropod dinosaur in the South

of Port Waikato 

Joan Wiffen received an honorary doctorate in 1994.

She died in 30 June 2009 age 87 and died in Hawkes Bay.

Joan’s work was important to remember forever