Carlos Alberto Menendez, Argentine paleobotanist and palynologist (Calamuchita, Cordoba Province 17 August 1921 – 31 August 1976)

Authored over 50 works

DESCRIBED FOSSIL TAXA

Sporae

Genera

Ancistrospora 1972 with Azcuy

Irmosporites 1969 with Azcuy

Species

80

Plantae

Genera

Alsophicaulis 1961

Sueria 1965

Species 

Araliophyllum cachetamanense

Asterotheca hilariensis 1957

Cycadolepis coriacea 1966

Cycadolepis oblonga 1966

Cycadolepis lanceolata 1966

Cycadolepis involuta 1966

Dicroidium crassum 

Dictyophyllum barrealensis with Stipanicic

Dictyophyllum castellanosi with Stipanicic

Dictyophyllum chihuihuensis 

Dictyophyllum tenuifollium 1949 with Stipanicic

Dictyophyllum tenuiserratum 

Dictyozamites crassinervis

Dictyozamites latifolius 1972

Dictiozamites minusculus

Equisetites quindecimdenta 1958

Hausmannia feltisiana with Stipanicic

Hymenophyllum priscum

Laurophyllum hickenii

Otozamites parviauriculata 1966

Paracacioxylon odonelli 1962

Protocircoporoxylon cortaderitaensis

Ptilophyllum longipinnatum

Ruprechtia castilloensis

Taeniopteris densinervis 

Thyrsopteris antigua 1966

Williamsonia bulbiformis

Williamsonia umbonata

Zamites decurrens

Zamites grandis 1972

Others (at least)

1 species in Acritarchs/Algae

4 species in Dinoflagellata

HONORS

Menendoxylon Lutz 1979 (Fossil Plantae)

His wife, Gabriela Gustava Haessel de Menendez, bryologist (Quilmes, Buenos Aires Province 15 October 1927 – Buenos Aires 04 July 2009)

Authored 91 works

DESCRIBED NEW TAXA   

Hepaticae

Genera

Arctoscyphus 1992

Austrolembidium 1980

Crandaliella

Greeneothallus 1980

Perdusenia 1989

Pisanoa 1989

Tegulifolium 1973

Subgenera

Eurychiloscyphus 2001

Parachiloscyphus 2000

Section

Oppositifolion

Anthocerotophyta

Orders

Dendrocerotales 1988

Leiosporotales 1986

Family

Leiosporocerotaceae 1986

Subfamily

Phaeocerotoideae 1988

Genera

Leiosporoceros 1986

Paraphymatoceros 2006

Sphaerosporoceros 1988

HONORS

Haesselia Grolle & Gradstein 1988 (Hepaticae)