Norman Wakefield (1918-1972). Australian born naturalist. In 1966 he identified a living mountain pygmy possum, Burramys parvus, a species previously known only from fossils. In 1972 his work received international attention in Nature, when he reported the discovery of the oldest known fossil footprints (355 million years old) near the Genoa River, Victoria, Australia.
Naturalist's diary, 1967 t.p. (Norman A. Wakefield)