Robin Charles Ignatius Whatley was born in England (Hawkhurst) on December 2nd 1936 and, being 79 years old, died in Wales on June 4th 2016. He attended the Sir Norton Knatchbull Grammar School in Ashford, Kent, and then took various jobs in farming, fishing and the National Service in the fifties. He received his higher education at the University of Hull, where he graduated with a First-class honours degree in both Geology and Zoology (1962). There, he subsequently earned a Ph.D. with an excellent Thesis on the Callovian and Oxfordian Ostracoda of England and Scotland (1965).Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Muse