Felipe Méndez

Felipe Mendez during an armadillo excavation in Puerta Corral Quemado. 1926.

Felipe Méndez (* around 1908 in San Juan , Argentina ) was an Argentine fossil collector .

Like his brother Juan Méndez, he took part in the 2nd Paleontological Captain Marshall Field Expedition , which was carried out in Argentina from April to November 1926, as a local collector of paleontological finds . The purpose of this expedition of the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago was to collect fossil specimens in the Argentine province of Catamarca . The expedition was very successful, and new species such as Stahleckeria were found. Other participants were the expedition leader and photographer Elmer S. Riggs , Rudolf Stahlecker and Robert C. Thorne .

Individual evidence

↑ Larry Gene Marshall, Bryan Patterson: Geology and geochronology of the mammal-bearing Tertiary of the Valle de Santa María and Río Corral Quemado, Catamarca Province, Argentina : In: Fieldiana. Geology 9, 1981, p. 21 ( digitized version ).
^ Information from The Field Museum Library

personal data
SURNAME	Méndez, Felipe
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Mendez, Felipe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Argentine fossil collector
DATE OF BIRTH	20th century
DATE OF DEATH	20th century

[1] Larry Gene Marshall, Bryan Patterson: Geology and geochronology of the mammal-bearing Tertiary of the Valle de Santa María and Río Corral Quemado, Catamarca Province, Argentina : In: Fieldiana. Geology 9, 1981, p. 21 ( digitized version ).

[2] Information from The Field Museum Library