Olaf Höltke. Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany. laf.hoeltke@smns-bw.de
Olaf Höltke received his diploma in geology at the University of Tübingen, Germany. Her works at Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Stuttgart in the palaeontology and mineralogy departments. Currently he is on his PhD about fossil landsnails from the Middle to late Miocene Upper Freshwatermolasse of Baden-Württemberg, Germany. His other main topics are the taxonomy, systematics, biogeography, and paleoecology of fossil sharks and rays, especially from the Early Miocene Upper Marine Molasse of Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
Rodrigo B. Salvador. Department of Arctic and Marine Biology, The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway and The Arctic University Museum of Norway, The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway. salvador.rodrigo.b@gmail.com
Rodrigo Salvador received his bachelors in biology and masters in zoology from the University of São Paulo (Brazil) and a doctorate in natural sciences (paleontology) from the University of Tübingen (Germany). He was curator of invertebrates at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. Since 2022 he has been a researcher at UiT in Norway. His research mainly focuses on land and freshwater gastropods, both living and fossil, in the areas of taxonomy, systematics, biogeography, and paleoecology. He is also a co-founder of the Journal of Geek Studies.
Michael W. Rasser. Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde, Stuttgart, Germany. michael.rasser@smns-bw.de
Michael Rasser received his master degree (Mag.) and doctorate (Dr. rer. nat.) in palaeontology from the University of Vienna, Austria, and his venia docendi (Habilitation) from University of Graz, Austria. After his postDoc in Graz and Potsdam, he became a curator for fossil invertebrates at Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Stuttgart in 2004. His research focuses on Miocene liminc systems as fossillagerstätten, evolution of freshwater snails, and the actuopalaeontology of rhodoliths.
