PREHISTORIC LIFE IN NEW ZEALAND

Intertitle: “This film is a tribute to the work of Joan Wiffen, palaeontologist”

A survey of prehistoric life in NZ, taking in the processes of fossilisation and the stories these fossils reveal about the geography of the country and the life that walked its forests.
The film also focuses on eminent amateur palaeontologist, Joan Wiffen. Wiffen describes the type of life found in inland Hawkes Bay at the Mangahouanga Stream site, an area she and her assistant Joseph McKee have worked for many years.