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)