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)