Record ID:
36520267 (Libraries Australia Authorities)
Authority type:
  • Name.
Description conventions:
  • rda
Heading:
Birth:
  • 19181128
  • Romsey, Victoria, Australia
Death:
  • 19720923
  • Sherbrooke, Victoria, Australia
Occupations:
  • naturalist academic school teacher
Used for:
  • Wakefield, Norman A. (Norman Arthur), 1918-1972
  • Wakefield, Norman Arthur, 1918-1972
Notes:
  • 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)
  • WWW Australian Dictionary of Biography, 19/05/2017 http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/wakefield-norman-arthur-11933
Local system number:
  • (VSL)11972656
  • abv03231267
  • 000001528200
  • (AU-CaAIA)XX33067
Cataloguing source:
  • ANL eng VSL rda
Authentication code:
  • anuc