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| Born | Shona Margaret Bell 19 April 1924 |
| Died | 4 December 2011 (aged 87) Silverstream, New Zealand |
| Alma mater | University of New Zealand |
| Spouse | Tom Grant-Taylor |
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| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Paleobotany |
| Institutions | Geological Survey of New Zealand |
| Author abbrev. (botany) | S.M. Bell |
Shona Margaret Bell (married name Grant-Taylor, 19 April 1924 – 4 December 2011) was a New Zealand palaeontologist and paleobotanist.
Family and early life
[edit]Bell was born on 19 April 1924 in the Auckland suburb of Birkenhead.[1][2] Her parents were Dorothy Barbara Bell (née Ambrose) and Lionel Samuel Fenton Bell, who had gotten married in 1922.[3][4] Her mother was a school teacher at a commercial school in Christchurch and her father worked for the Union Bank in Auckland.[3] By 1932, the Bell family was living in Waipukurau in the Hawke's Bay Region, where her father was the manager of the Union Bank.[5] In March 1938, they moved to Wellington, where her father had been appointed to a head office position at the Union Bank.[6]
Marriage and death
[edit]Bell married Tom Grant-Taylor around 1950.[7] Bell's husband died in 1982.[8] She died at the Heretaunga Home in Silverstream, a suburb of Upper Hutt on 4 December 2011.[9]
Academic career
[edit]Bell passed the entrance examination and the medical preliminary in the 1939 University Entrance Examinations for Wellington.[10] She achieved a Bachelor of Science in Geology at the University of New Zealand towards the end of 1945.[11]
She studied the fossils of the Corbies Creek area of North Otago and the Benmore Dam area, where she was the first to describe fossil plants.[12][13] Among them were three new plant species: Chiropteris biloba, Chiropteris waitakiensis and Linguifolium waitakiense.[14] The 1954 Directory of New Zealand Science records her as an assistant palaeontologist at the Geological Survey of New Zealand, where she worked from 1948 to 1950 on fossil leaf impressions to assist in the dating of late Cretaceous and early Cenozoic coal measures.[15][16][7]
She resigned upon getting married, as was expected at the time.[16][7]
In 2011 a newly discovered genus of fossil in the Codiaceae family was named Shonabellia in her honour by Gregory Retallack. The type species Shonabellia verrucosa was found near Benmore Dam.[13]
Her author abbreviation used when citing a botanical name is S.M.Bell.[17]
References
[edit]- ^ "Births". The New Zealand Herald. Vol. LXI, no. 18689. 21 April 1924. p. 1. Retrieved 29 March 2025.
- ^ Birth Search (registration number 1924/15366), Department of Internal Affairs, www.bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz
- ^ a b "Women's corner". The Press. Vol. LVII, no. 17331. 17 December 1921. p. 2. Retrieved 30 March 2025.
- ^ Marriage Search (registration number 1922/2380), Department of Internal Affairs, www.bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz
- ^ "Local directory". Waipukurau Press. Vol. XXVIII, no. 128. 25 May 1932. p. 6. Retrieved 30 March 2025.
- ^ "Personal items". Waipawa Mail. Vol. LXVI, no. 67. 23 February 1938. p. 2. Retrieved 30 March 2025.
- ^ a b c "Current notes". The Press. Vol. LXXXVI, no. 26031. 7 February 1950. p. 2. Retrieved 21 July 2024.
- ^ "Grant-Taylor, T. L. (Thomas Ludovic), 1923–1982". Library of Congress. Retrieved 21 July 2024.
- ^ "Death Notice & Guest Book Preview for Shona Grant-Taylor". The New Zealand Herald. Retrieved 30 March 2025.
- ^ "Matriculation". The Evening Post. Vol. CXXIX, no. 22. 26 January 1940. p. 4. Retrieved 30 March 2025.
- ^ "Students' success". Auckland Star. Vol. LXXVI, no. 304. 24 December 1945. p. 3. Retrieved 20 July 2024.
- ^ Gair, Harry; Gregg, Donald; Speden, Ian (1962). "Triassic fossils from Corbies Creek, North Otago". New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics. 5: 94. doi:10.1080/00288306.1962.10420112. Retrieved 30 March 2025.
- ^ a b Retallack, Gregory (1983). "Middle Triassic megafossil marine algae and land plants from near Benmore Dam, southern Canterbury, New Zealand". Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand. 13 (3): 129–154. doi:10.1080/03036758.1983.10415325.
- ^ Shona Bell; H J Harrington; I C Mckellar (1955). "Lower Mesozoic Plant Fossils from Black Jacks, Waitaki River, South Canterbury" (PDF). Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand. 83: 663–672. ISSN 0035-9181. Wikidata Q89183605.
- ^ Scientists, New Zealand Association of (1951). Directory of Science of New Zealand. p. 52.
- ^ a b Simon Nathan (May 2020). "Women in New Zealand Geoscience". GSNZ Journal of the Historical Studies Group. 65. Wikidata Q104980956.
- ^ "Bell, Shona M." Index of Botanists. Harvard University Herbaria & Libraries. Retrieved 29 March 2025.