Álvaro Mones Explained

Birth Name:Álvaro Jaime Mones Sibillotte
Nationality:Uruguayan
Field:Paleontology
Author Abbreviation Zoo:Mones

Álvaro Jaime Mones Sibillotte (born 7 August 1942 in Montevideo) is a Uruguayan biologist and paleontologist.[1]

The fossil Josephoartigasia monesi is named after him, for his study of the rodent in 1966.[2]

Notes and References

  1. http://www.mec.gub.uy/munhina/biograf11.htm Uruguayan biologists
  2. Rinderknecht . Andrés . Blanco . R. Ernesto . January 2008 . The largest fossil rodent . Proceedings of the Royal Society B . 275 . 1637. 923–8 . 10.1098/rspb.2007.1645 . 18198140 . 2599941.

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