• Joan Wiffen CBE (née Pederson; 4 February 1922 – 30 June 2009) was a self-taught New Zealand paleontologist known for discovering the first dinosaur fossils...
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  • netball player Jeremiah Holmes Wiffen (1792–1836), English poet and writer, brother of Benjamin Barron Wiffen Joan Wiffen (1922–2009), New Zealand amateur...
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    name), or the "Joan Wiffen's theropod" is an informal name given to the theropod discovered in the Tahora Formation, New Zealand by Joan Wiffen, who considered...
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  • reptile fossil remains, first investigated by amateur palaeontologist Joan Wiffen. The whole of the Tinui Group is interpreted to be an upper Cretaceous...
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  • Palaeontology. 8 (2): 257–300. doi:10.1080/14772011003594870. Molnar, Ralph E.; Wiffen, Joan; Hayes, Brendan (June 1998). "A probable theropod bone from the latest...
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  • Moanasaurus (category Taxa named by Joan Wiffen)
    Paleontology portal List of dinosaurs and other Mesozoic reptiles of New Zealand Wiffen, J. (1980). "Moanasaurus, a new genus of marine reptile (Family Mosasauridae)...
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    on a neck vertebra. Welles recognized it as a nomen dubium in 1962; Joan Wiffen and William Moisley concurred in a 1986 review of New Zealand plesiosaurs...
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  • single species, A. wiffeni named for the late prominent fossil hunter Joan Wiffen. This species is currently known only from rostral teeth found at Mangahouanga...
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    Herald. 24 June 2008. Retrieved 24 February 2019. "Dinosaur hunter: Joan Wiffen". Stuff.co.nz. 31 January 2009. Retrieved 24 February 2019. "Port Waikato...
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    journalist James Wattie – industrialist/entrepreneur and founder of Wattie's Joan Wiffen – amateur palaeontologist who discovered the first dinosaur fossils in...
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  • Dinosaurs of New Zealand. Looks at the work of self-taught palaeontologist Joan Wiffen. 2003: Just a Little Mad. A documentary about schizophrenia. 2004: Trial...
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    for studying past sea levels and climates. In 1975 the palaeontologist Joan Wiffen discovered the first dinosaur fossils in New Zealand. The Geological...
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  • fossils have been uncovered since the 1970s. In 1999, palaeontologist Joan Wiffen discovered the vertebra bone of a titanosaur in a tributary of the Te...
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  • Nobel Prize for work on information processing in the visual system Joan Wiffen (1922–2009), New Zealand paleontologist who discovered numerous dinosaur...
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  • and bird flu William Henry Webster – malacologist and conchcologist Joan Wiffen – paleontologist, discovered first dinosaur fossils in New Zealand Siouxsie...
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    taxonomic revision. Michael W. Caldwell; Robert Holmes; Gorden L. Bell Jr.; Joan Wiffen (2005). "An unusual tylosaurine mosasaur from New Zealand: A new skull...
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  • (England, 1916-2010) Christopher H. Whittle (United States, 1959- ) Joan Wiffen (New Zealand, 1922-2009) Paul Wignall (England, 1964- ) James Steele...
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  • Joan Wiffen's Theropod...
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  • Ward Patty Jo Watson Elizabeth Wayland Barber Gussie White Lisa White Joan Wiffen Audrey Williams Alice Wilson Peggy Wilson Mary “Polly” Winearls Porter...
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    rocks in Kansas represented the oldest known mosasaur fossils. 1980 Joan Wiffen described the new genus Moanasaurus. 1982 Sankar Chatterjee and Zinsmeister...
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  • 1929) 28 June – Tom Paulay, earthquake engineer (born 1923) 30 June – Joan Wiffen, amateur paleontologist (born 1922) 3 July – Frank Devine, newspaper...
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  • 1993 Campbell Reid DSc 1993 Rod Weir DSc 1994 Joan Dingley DSc 1994 Brian Elwood DLit 1994 Joan Wiffen DSc 1995 David Levene DLit 1995 Philip Yates DSc...
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  • 29 January – Ronald Hugh Morrieson, writer (died 1972) 4 February – Joan Wiffen, palaeontologist (died 2009) 8 February – Laurie Salas, women's rights...
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    of East Gondwana. The tail vertebrae of an unknown theropod, dubbed "Joan Wiffen's theropod", were discovered in the Late Jurassic/Early Cretaceous rocks...
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    experimental gardener and early New Zealand scientist 14th Century Unknown Joan Wiffen Paleontologist 4 February 1922 30 June 2009 Philippa Wiggins Biochemist...
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  • Carawan (1950) Ramblin' Jack Elliott, I Stand Alone (2006) David Wiffen, David Wiffen At The Bunkhouse Coffeehouse, Vancouver BC (1965) Johnny Duncan,...
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  • inspirational suffragist". Braintree and Witham Times. Retrieved 7 January 2024. Wiffen, Lauren. "Braintree District Council's Chairman joins community to celebrate...
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  • 3:42.21 Kim Woo-min  South Korea 3:42.50 800 m freestyle details Daniel Wiffen  Ireland 7:38.19 OR, ER Bobby Finke  United States 7:38.75 Gregorio Paltrinieri...
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    1960, pp.106-7, note 10 Wiffen, pp.104-108, quoting Plea Rolls of John 2, Michaelmas term Wiffen calls it "Stockledge" Wiffen: "Uppotori" Sanders, 1960...
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  • Thomas Neill Zac Incerti Kai Taylor  Australia Men's 800 m freestyle Daniel Wiffen  Ireland Bobby Finke  United States Gregorio Paltrinieri  Italy Women's...
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