Joan wiffen information report

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Joan wiffen is a famous fossil hunter and was the first person to find the first in NZ/New Zealand.
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Early life
Born in ??The 4th of february 1922.
Lived where?? Maungahouanga in Hawkes Bay
Married to…?? KIds?? Pont wiffen & two kids.
What was her job?? Paleontologist.

First fossil she ever had was given an Ammonite (fossil of an ancient squid) that made her interested in finding fossils.
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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.
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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.
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Later life
Honorary doctorate in 1994. Joan wiffen looked for fossils before becoming a Paleontologist when she was given an honorary doctorate.
Died in ?? 2009 30th of june

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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