Roberto Emmanuel Hernández Jasso. Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Sección de Antropología Física, Centro INAH-Yucatán. Carretera Mérida-Progreso s/n, kilómetro 6.5, Prolongación Montejo, Colonia Gonzalo Guerrero, C. P. 97310, Mérida, Yucatán, México. Corresponding author. biohdz@yahoo.com
Roberto Emmanuel Hernández Jasso is a paleontologist of continental vertebrates from the Pleistocene to Holocene, specializing in faunal turnover, biogeography, paleoecology and paleoclimatology. Currently he holds a position as a postdoctoral researcher at the Centro INAH-Yucatán (Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia) where he works with the vertebrates of the Loltún Cave collection . He obtained his Ph.D. in Paleontology at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain, in 2015, and a Bachelor's degree in Biology at the Instituto Tecnológico de Ciudad Victoria (2004). Since 2020, he is a member of the Sistema Nacional de Investigadores (SNI, Conahcyt), where he has directed several projects in the southeast and northeast of Mexico related to paleoecology, diversity changes, paleoclimate and paleoenvironment. He is the author or co-author of more than 20 publications (book chapters, scientific articles and conference abstracts).
Alberto Blanco Piñón. Colegio de Biología. Escuela Normal Superior “Profr. Moisés Saénz Garza”. Av. Venustiano Carranza s/n. Col. Centro. Monterrey, Nuevo León. México. C.P. 64000 and Museo Histórico Regional de General Bravo. Calle 5 de mayo s/n. Centro. General Bravo, Nuevo León, México. C.P. 67000 alberto.blancop@normalmsg.edu.mx; blanco.abp@gmail.com
Alberto Blanco Piñón was born in Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico. He obtained a Bachelor's degree in Biology in May 1995 (Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, México); a Master's degree in Geological Sciences in August 1998 (Facultad de Ciencias de la Tierra, Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León); and a Ph.D. in Geosciences in December 2003 (Sandwich Program Grant between the University of Kalsruhe, Germany, and Facultad de Ciencias de la Tierra, Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León) with an emphasis on paleontology, stratigraphy, and taphonomy. He served as a research professor at the Universidad Autónoma de Hidalgo, México (2004-2016); as an invited researcher at the Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, México (2016-2017); as Director of the Department of Planetary Research and Exploration at Black Ammonite Inc. México (2021-2023); and he has served as an invited professor at the Escuela de Graduados de la Escuela Normal Superior “Moisés Sáenz Garza”, México (2019-present). He has also developed various projects related to Science Education since 1999. In recent years, Blanco-Piñón's research has focused on the relationship between different climatic, oceanographic, and geological events and the genesis of fossil assemblages from Mexico. Currently, his research integrates disciplines such as stratigraphy, taphonomy, carbonate petrography and microfacies analysis, geobiology, astrobiology, and education.
