Joyce Ravina Richardson (née Richards; 14 July 1923 – 13 October 2019) was a New Zealand palaeontologist.
She studied zoology at the University of Otago and won the Parker Memorial Prize in 1945.
[4] She completed a PhD there in 1958 for her thesis, The cainozoic terebratuloid and terebratelloid brachiopoda of Australia.
[6] In 1977, Richardson won a grant from National Geographic to undertake an expedition to study brachiopods in the waters surrounding Stewart Island.
[7][8] Following her retirement, Richardson returned to Australia where she volunteered at the National Museum of Victoria and continued her work on brachiopods.