Barry W.M. van Bakel. Oertijdmuseum De Groene Poort, Bosscheweg 80, 5283 WB Boxtel, the Netherlands; and Naturalis Biodiversity Center, P.O. Box 9517, 2300 RA Leiden, the Netherlands. barryvanbakel@gmail.com
Barry van Bakel, palaeontologist and carcinologist for more than 20 years, studies fossil crabs with focus on the primitive crabs (podotremata). He is associated researcher at Oertijdmuseum De Groene Poort, and Naturalis Biodiversity Center. Comparative morphology with extant congeners and macroevolution are typical aspects of his recent work.
Ninon Robin. Muséum national d’histoire naturelle, Centre de Recherche sur la Paléobiodiversité et les Paléoenvironnements (CR2P, UMR 7207), Sorbonne Universités-MNHN, CNRS, UPMC-Paris6, 57 rue Cuvier, Case postale 48, F-75005, Paris, France. ninon.robin@mnhn.fr
Currently graduate assistant at the Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle of Paris, Ninon Robin’s research focuses on the contact associations between fossil organisms and the inferred paleosymbioses (parasitic, commensal or mutualistic). She is interested in all aspects of ancient interspecific associations, mainly involving fossil marine invertebrates, but also vertebrates and plants as host.
Sylvain Charbonnier. Muséum national d’histoire naturelle, Centre de Recherche sur la Paléobiodiversité et les Paléoenvironnements (CR2P, UMR 7207), Sorbonne Universités-MNHN, CNRS, UPMC-Paris6, 57 rue Cuvier, Case postale 48, F-75005, Paris, France. scharbonnier@mnhn.fr
Sylvain Charbonnier, palaeontologist and curator of fossil invertebrates at the Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Paris, studies exceptionally preserved fossils from Konservat-Lagerstätten (La Voulte, Cerin, Hadjoula, Hakel). His palaeontological work focuses in particular on Mesozoic marine arthropods and on the reconstruction of their palaeoecosystems.
Jeff Saward. 53, Thundersley Grove, Thundersley, Essex, SS7 3EB, United Kingdom. jeffsaward@gmail.com
Jeff Saward is a collector of Eocene London Clay crustacea from Southeast England for more than thirty years. Author and contributor to various studies and descriptions of London Clay crustacea, he’s currently a member of the Tertiary Research Group, UK, and the vice-President of Essex Rock and Mineral Society.
