Dra. Daniela S. Monti. Laboratorio de Filogeografía y Filogenias Moleculares, Departamento de Ecología Genética y Evolución, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, UBA, Intendente Güiraldes 2160, Pabellón II -Ciudad Universitaria, (CPBA1428), CABA, Argentina.
danielamonti@gmail.com

Researcher at CONICET (National Scientific and Technical Research Council), based at the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina. Her work explores how changes in early Palaeozoic oceans influenced the evolution and dispersal of trilobites. She focuses on the Cambrian–Ordovician family Olenidae, applying phylogenetic, biogeographic, and other quantitative approaches.

Dr. Guillermo Fidel Turazzini. Investigador CONICET, Laboratorio de Morfología Evolutiva y Paleobiología de Vertebrados, (MEP-Lab / DBBE - FCEyN - UBA). gfturazzini@gmail.com

Guillermo is a vertebrate paleontologist that focuses on alfa taxonomy of anurans, although in his early career he worked on mammalian carnivores focusing on geometric morphometry analysis. His current line of research is on late Cenozoic anura fossils from Argentina, but he also participates in workgroups that search and study late Mesozoic and early Cenozoic vertebrate fossils from Patagonia.

Bridjet Radstaak (Blog and Public Relations Editor)
bridjetradstaak@gmail.com

Bridjet is a palaeontologist and evolutionary biologist focused on reptile and amphibian
evolution. She received her undergraduate degree in palaeontology from the University of
Alberta, with a focus on fossil turtles. She is currently working on a Master’s in Earth Sciences
at Carleton University, with a specific focus on amphibian embryology and limb development.

Li Tian. State Key Laboratory of Geomicrobiology and Environmental Changes, China University of Geosciences (Wuhan), No. 68 Jincheng Street, Weilaisan Road，Wuhan, 430078.
tianlibgeg@cug.edu.cn

Li Tian has been trained at China University of Geosciences (Wuhan) and University of Bristol as paleontological Ph.D student and postdoctoral associate in 2015 and 2019, respectively. His research is not just focusing on biostratigraphy and paleoecology of Ediacara and Triassic but also exploring ways to integrate the modern biotic data with geological records. He is running a marine ecology simulation lab as a PI, with a handful of geology and biology students involved.

Jonathan M.G. Perry. Department of Physical Therapy Education, College of Health Sciences - Northwest, Western University of Health Sciences, 2665 S. Santiam Hwy., Lebanon, Oregon, 97355, U.S.A. jperry@westernu.edu

Jonathan M. G. Perry is an Associate Professor in the Department of Physical Therapy Education at Western University of Health Sciences in Lebanon, OR, USA. He earned a Bachelor of Science (Honors) in Palaeontology at the University of Alberta in 1998, a Master of Science in Systematics and Evolution at the University of Alberta in 2001, a Ph.D. in Biological Anthropology and Anatomy at Duke University in 2008, and then completed a Postdoctoral Fellowship at Stony Brook University. His research focuses on the chewing system in primates, the interplay between diet and dental morphology, and the early evolution of primates.

Sergio Álvarez-Parra
Instituto Geológico y Minero de España-CSIC, Spain
alvarez.parra.sergio@gmail.com

Sergio is a biologist specialized in palaeontology, who received his PhD in Earth Sciences from the University of Barcelona in 2023. He is currently working as a Special Research Assistant at the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. His research focuses on the taxonomy and palaeobiology of fossil insects preserved as both compressions in rock and bioinclusions in amber, with a primary emphasis on the orders Hymenoptera and Psocodea. Additionally, he is interested in taphonomy, aiming to elucidate the formation of the amber-bearing outcrops and understand the preservation of amber itself. Sergio has gained experience through research stays at institutions such as the University of Oxford, the Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, and the Senckenberg Forschungsinstitut und Naturmuseum, as well as by participating in several fieldworks in Spain and China.

Alexandre V. Demers-Potvin. Department of Bioengineering and Redpath Museum, McGill University, Montréal, Québec, Canada. alexandre.demers-potvin@mail.mcgill.ca

Dr. Alexandre Demers-Potvin has dedicated most of his palaeontological research to understanding Late Cretaceous North American non-marine ecosystems and their denizens across a wide taxonomic span, from new fossil insect species in Subarctic Canada to new dinosaur finds in Alberta and Saskatchewan. He has also pursued parallel projects on plesiosaur biology and joined expeditions further afield, from the Andean foothills of Colombia to the Sahara Desert of Niger. The present paper is a key component of his PhD thesis on the palaeoecology of Dinosaur Provincial Park.

Jonathan Calede
jonathan.calede@gmail.com

Jonathan received his bachelors (B.S.) in Earth Sciences from the Universite Claude Bernard Lyon 1 in France. He then moved to the United States where he earned a M.S. in earth sciences from the University of Oregon and a PhD in biology from the University of Washington. After a year at Bucknell University as a Visiting Assistant Professor, he spent 2017-2023 as an Assistant Professor at the Ohio State University. After being granted tenure, Jonathan returned to his home country of France. He lives on a 30 acre farm where he continues his research on the systematics and paleoecology of mammals from the Oligocene and Miocene. He is mostly focused on understanding the evolutionary ecology of geomyoids, but you will also find him puzzling at other critters.