Florencia Soledad Filippini. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET). Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales “Bernardino Rivadavia” (MACN). Av. Angel Gallardo 470, C1405DJR Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, Argentina. flor.s.filippini@gmail.com
She obtained in 2012 a degree in Biology orientated in Palaeontology from the Universidad Nacional de La Plata, and a Doctorate in Applied Sciences from the Universidad Nacional de Lujan, in 2023. She specializes in the study of the cranial-mandibular anatomy of gomphodont cynodonts from the Triassic of Argentina. In particular, her research focuses on the study of morphological variation using geometric morphometrics to determine ecomorphological patterns and propose paleobiological hypotheses. In addition, she works on the digitization of the specimen material using photogrammetry to generate 3D surface models. She is currently a postdoctoral fellow at CONICET and works at the Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales “Bernardino Rivadavia”, Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Fernando Abdala. Unidad Ejecutora Lillo, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET)-Fundación Miguel Lillo, Miguel Lillo 251, 4000, San Miguel de Tucumán, Tucumán, Argentina, and Evolutionary Studies Institute, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. nestor.abdala@wits.ac.za
He is a researcher at Unidad Ejecutora Lillo (Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas – Fundación Miguel Lillo) in Tucumán, Argentina. He earned his Licentiate and Doctorate degrees in Biological Sciences from the Facultad de Ciencias Naturales e Instituto Miguel Lillo, Universidad Nacional de Tucumán. He held postdoctoral fellowships at the Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul in Porto Alegre, Brazil, and at the Evolutionary Studies Institute, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. At the latter institution, he also served as Senior Research Officer and Reader. His main research focuses on Permo-Triassic therapsids—particularly therocephalians and non-mammaliaform cynodonts—and he also has an interest in the cranial ontogeny of living marsupials.
Guillermo H. Cassini. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET). División Mastozoología, Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales “Bernardino Rivadavia” (MACN), Av. Ángel Gallardo 470, C1405DJR Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, Argentina and Departamento de Ciencias Básicas, Universidad Nacional de Luján (UNLu). Ruta 5 y Av. Constitución s/n, 6700 Luján, Buenos Aires, Argentina. gcassini@macn.gov.ar
He is Professor of functional anatomy at the Universidad Nacional de Luján, Researcher of the Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Assosiate curator of the Colección Nacional de Mastozoología and Head of the División Mastozoología, working at the Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales “Bernardino Rivadavia”, Argentina. His main research focuses on biomechanics, functional morphology and ecomorphology of extant and extinct mammals in an evolutionary framework applying the form-function correlation paradigm.
