José Antonio del Castillo Patiño, Mexican geologist, paleontologist and mineralogist (Pungarabato, Michoacán State 17 June 1820 – Ciudad de Mexico 27 October 1895)

Authored 79 scientific works

Described and named 2 new mineral species, guanajuatite (1873) and the variety guadalcazarite (1865)

With M. Barcena discovered Peñon man (1884)

DESCRIBED FOSSIL SPECIES

Mammalia

Palauchenia mexicana 1869

Mollusca (with Aguilera 1895)

Aptychus mexicanus

Aspidoceras alamitosensis

Cucullaea catorcensis

Cyprimeria mexicana

Cyprina coteroi  

Exogyra potosina

Goniomyia calderoni

Haploceras carinata

Haploceras catorcensis

Haploceras mazapilensis

Hoplites bifurcatus

Hoplites cohglani

Hoplites exceptionalis

Hoplites heilprini

Hoplites mexicanus

Lucina coetoi

Lucina potosina

Lytoceras potosina

Nautilus burkarti

Olcostephanus potosinus

Perisphinctes alamitosensis

Perisphinctes dolfussi

Perisphinctes felixii

Perisphinctes flexicostatus

Perisphinctes lauri

Perisphinctes lenki

Perisphinctes mazapilensis

Perisphinctes montserrati

Perisphinctes potosinus

Placenticeras fallax

Pleuromyia inconstans

Pulchellia mexicana

Rhacophyllites alamitosensis

Rhacophyllites calderoni

Rhacophyllites disputabile

Vermetus cornejoi

Waldheimia catorcensis

With Barcena

Nerinea anguillina 1875