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Biography: Wiffen, Joan

Extracting fossils

In this 1989 television appearance, Joan Wiffen demonstrates how fossils are extracted from rocks and casts of them made.

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Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision

Reference: F96445 PREHISTORIC LIFE IN NEW ZEALAND [Joan Wiffen] (1989).

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Simon Nathan. 'Wiffen, Joan', Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, first published in 2018. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/video/47132/extracting-fossils (accessed 7 June 2026).