Adiël A. Klompmaker. Department of Museum Research and Collections & Alabama Museum of Natural History, The University of Alabama, Box 870340, Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35487, USA; Department of Integrative Biology and Museum of Paleontology, University of California, Berkeley, 1005 Valley Life Sciences Building #3140, Berkeley, California 94720, USA. adielklompmaker@gmail.com
Adiël is a Dutch paleontologist working and living in the United States since 2008. As of late 2019, he is the Curator of Paleontology at the University of Alabama Museums. Although he has done some research on plants and vertebrates as well, he is an invertebrate paleontologist primarily. His current research focuses mainly on biotic interactions among marine animals in deep time and nearly all aspects of the fossil record of crustaceans. Currently, he serves as an associate editor for the journal PALAIOS. See Google Scholar for more of his research: https://tinyurl.com/vpsh898
Natalia Starzyk. Institute of Systematics and Evolution of Animals, Polish Academy of Sciences, ul. Sławkowska 17, 31-016 Kraków, Poland. natalia_slaby@wp.pl
Natalia Starzyk is an invertebrate paleontologist who works on early decapods. Her research is currently focused on the evolution and diversity of Jurassic and Cretaceous brachyurans, which were widespread on the territory of what is now Europe. She named a number of new species of true crabs from Oxfordian localities from the Polish Jura Chain.
René H.B. Fraaije. Oertijdmuseum, Bosscheweg 80, NL-5283 WB Boxtel, The Netherlands. info@oertijdmuseum.nl
René Fraaije is a Dutch palaeontologist and geologist specialised in fossil decapod crustaceans, especially hermit crabs, and their role in former ecosystems. Other research includes cephalopod ecology, ichnology, bracket fungi, dinosaurs, cycloids, ostracods, plants and echinoderms. He collected his first fossil at the age of eleven and founded the Oertijdmuseum in 1983.
Günter Schweigert. Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde, Rosenstein 1, 70191 Stuttgart, Germany. guenter.schweigert@smns-bw.de
Günter Schweigert is a German palaeontologist and geologist who is greatly experienced with the Jurassic deposits of his country. His main interests focus on ammonites, decapod crustaceans and ichnofossils. Since more than 25 years he and his team are excavating the Late Jurassic Solnhofen-type fossil Lagerstaette of Nusplingen.
