Álvaro Mones

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

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Mones and the second or maternal family name is Sibillotte.

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

References
  1. Uruguayan biologists (in Spanish)
  2. Rinderknecht, Andrés; Blanco, R. Ernesto (January 2008). "The largest fossil rodent". Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 275 (1637): 923–8. doi:10.1098/rspb.2007.1645. PMC 2599941. PMID 18198140.


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