Agustín Ayala-Castañares, Mexican micropaleontologist (Mazatlán, Sinaloa 28 August 1925 – 23 November 2005)

First to use satellite technology applied to marine geology

With F.B. Phleger. Processes and history of Terminos Lagoon, Mexico. Bull. Amer. Assoc. Petrol. Geol. 55(12):2130-40, 1971

DESCRIBED FOSSIL FORAMINIFERA TAXA

Species

Orbitoides villasensis 1963 with Seiglie

Orbitolina morelensis 1960

Reophax encantoensis 1954 with Eternod & Castello

Stomiosphaera cardiiformis 1962 with Seiglie

Sulcoperculina diazi 1963 with Seiglie

Sulcoperculina minima 1963 with Seiglie

Subspecies

Vaughnanina cubensis minor 1963 with Seiglie

Vaughnanina cubensis globosa 1963 with Seiglie

HONORS

Associated Researcher, Scripps Institute, USA (from 1968)

Doctor Honoris Causa, Université de Bordeaux (1988)

Life Member, Pacific Science and Technology Congress (PACON) 1992

Genus Ayalaina Seiglie 1960 (Fossil Foraminifera)