Rafael Adrover

Antoni Adrover Bennàsar, better known as Rafael Adrover (22 October 1911 – 30 January 2007), was a Spanish paleontologist, schoolteacher, and religious of the Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools.

Academic career Born on 22 October 1911 in the Mallorca town of Felanitx, Antoni Adrover studied to become a Brother of La Salle at the , finishing his novitiate in 1927, aged 16, the year in which he also changed his name to Rafael.

Between 1932 and 1933, Adrover, then an elementary education teacher, carried out his mandatory military service, during which he began teaching in his barracks as well, and later mobilized during the Spanish Civil War.

During this time, the local researchers and Margueritte Hugueney spurred him to begin writing his doctoral thesis, which he completed and read in Lyon in 1986, This thesis is today a reference work in the paleontology of micromammals from the Teruel region.

Work

Estudio comparativo de los restos craneanos de Myotragus procedente de la sima de Génova Fauna malacológica y mastológica del yacimiento cuaternario de Es Bufador Une faunule de mammifères insulaires dans le miocène moyen de majorque Mandíbula de Myotragus con dos incisivos y dos premolares El Myotragus de Can Sion: Primer esqueleto completo (no compuesto) del rupicáprido endémico de Baleares Notes et mémoires Nuevas faunas de roedores en el Mio-Plioceno... 1986 Nuevos micromamíferos en Mallorca Pequeñito intento de lavado de las tierras de la cueva de Son Muleta y los resultados obtenidos Predadores de la fauna mastológica pleistocénica de Mallorca El proceso de masticación en el género Myotragus