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...

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...

and only known species is Tuarangisaurus keyesi, named by "Pont" Wiffen, Joan Wiffen and Bill Moisley in 1986. The specific name honours Ian W. Keyes...

netball player Jeremiah Holmes Wiffen (1792–1836), English poet and writer, brother of Benjamin Barron Wiffen Joan Wiffen (1922–2009), New Zealand amateur...

reptile fossil remains, first investigated by amateur palaeontologist Joan Wiffen. The whole of the Tinui Group is interpreted to be an upper Cretaceous...

Paleontology portal List of dinosaurs and other Mesozoic reptiles of New Zealand Wiffen, J. (1980). "Moanasaurus, a new genus of marine reptile (Family Mosasauridae)...

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...

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...

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...

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...