Joan wiffen

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Joan Wiffen

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Introduction
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.
Conclusion

Joan wiffen was famous because she was the first one to found a theropod tailbone.

Joan wiffen born on the 4 of February 1922. She lives in Hawkes Bay. She married Pont wiffen and they have two children. Her job was palaeontologist. 

Joan Wiffen was the first person in New Zealand to find a dinosaur fossil. In 1975 they found 4 different kinds of fossils at Mangahouanga  stream in Hawkes Bay. She found some more fossils it is the tailbone from the (theropod) and a wingbone from a (pterosaurs) and a footbo ne from a (theropod) and a tailbone from a (sauropod). She found these fossils from Mangahouanga stream.

An Australian paleontologist Dr Ralph Molnar confirmed it was a dinosaur bone in 1980. Dr Greg Browne found and Dinosaur footprint and it is about 70 million years it is from  Northwest nelson. Brendan Hayes he found a very small fingerbone it is about 150 million years it is from south of port waikato. Dr Jeffrey Stilwell he found a Several dinosaur bones ( theropod and a sauropos) it is about 66-145 million years it is from Tioriori Chatham island. Joan wiffen and her family found six different kinds of dinosaur bone and it is about 70-80 million years it is from Mangahouanga stream inland Hawkes Bay.

Joan wiffen receieved an Honorary Doctorate in 1994. She died on the 30th of June 2009. 

We remember Joan Wiffen because we read books about her.