Oluwafeyisola Sylvester Adegoke, Nigerian geologist and paleontologist (Ondo 09 July 1937 –

World authority on post-Cretaceous stratigraphy of West Africa

Authored about 100 papers

DESCRIBED FOSSIL MOLLUSCAN TAXA

Families (1977)

Ewekoroiidae

Heligmotomidae

Vanpalmeriidae

Genera

Adekunbiella 1967 (in honor to his wife Adekunbi Adegoke)

Afranodontia 1977

Afrocimonia 1977

Afrocornulina 1977

Afrollonia 1977 

Afrovolutilithes 1977

Douvilletoma 1977

Druidwilsonia 1977

Eamesidura 1977

Ewekoroia 1977

Ewekorolaxis 1977

Ewekoromeris 1977 

Nigerapana 1977

Nigerialaxis 1977

Nigerithium 1977

Parkeristoma 1977

Platylaxis 1977

Ravnostoma 1977 

Reymentella 1977

Sootryenella 1977

Swiftopecten 1969

Vanpalmeria 1977

Vincenturris 1977

Wendella 1977

Wyattella 1967

Species

About 200

FOSSIL SPORES/POLLEN (with Jan du Chene)

Species

Bacutricoliptes potiskumensis 1978

Cranwellipolis gambeensis 1978

Densoisporites jamataensis 1978 with Adediran & Petters

Foveomonocolpites bauchiensis 1979

Longapertites microfoveolatus 1957

Psilastephanocolporites gongolaensis 1978 

HONORS

Adegokeastraea Ogbe 1976 (Fossil Cnidaria)