Editorial Board

Please note that the order in which the Editors appear on this page is alphabetical, and follows the structure of the editorial board presented on the MDPI website under information for editors: editorial board responsibilities.

Members


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CNRS (UMR 8538), Laboratoire de Géologie de l’Ecole Normale Supérieure, 24 Rue Lhomond, 75231 Paris, CEDEX 05, France
Interests: vertebrate palaeontology
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Laboratorio de Anatomía Comparada, Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales "Bernardino Rivadavia", Av. Ángel Gallardo 470. CP. C1405DJR, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Interests: vertebrate paleontology; origin and evolution of dinosaurs; South American palaeobiogeography

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Earth and Sustainability Science Research Center, School of Biological, Earth & Environmental Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia
Interests: Mesozoic and Cenozoic vertebrate-bearing formations, particularly in Australia, South America and New Zealand; fossil record of mammals in the Southern Hemisphere and in particular Australia, South America and New Zealand; evolution of all vertebrate groups; palaeokarst geology; bio- and geocorrelation of Cenozoic freshwater deposits in Australia; palaeoconservation focused on using the fossil record to develop strategies for conserving endangered living species

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1. CIBIO-Açores, Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, InBIO Laboratório Associado, Pólo dos Açores, 9500-321 Azores, Portugal
2. Departamento de Biologia, Universidade dos Açores, 9501-801 Ponta Delgada, Açores, Portugal
Interests: (palaeo)biogeography, palaeontology, (palaeo)ecology and (palaeo)biodiversity of shallow-water marine invertebrates in volcanic oceanic islands; evolutionary patterns and processes and assembling rules of the shallow-water marine fauna in insular ecosystems

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1. State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, China
2. Department of Natural Sciences, Faculty of Sciences II, Lebanese University, Fanar P.O. Box 26110217, Matn, Lebanon
Interests: palaeoentomology; entomology; evolution; palaeontology

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Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Evolution, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
Interests: insect diversity; molecular systematics; geometric morphometrics; 3D morphology; functional morphology; biogeography; AI taxonomy; intelligent insect monitoring; fossil
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Dipartimento di Fisica e Scienze della Terra, Università degli Studi di Ferrara, via Saragat 1, 44122 Ferrara, Italy
Interests: fossil and living larger foraminifera and calcareous algae; biostratigraphy; paleoecology; paleobiogeography; Cenozoic

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School for the Environment, University of Massachusetts at Boston, 100 Morrissey Blvd, Boston, MA 02125, USA
Interests: stratigraphy; palaeobiology; sedimentology; tectonics

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1. Departamento de Geologia, Universidade Federal Do Rio de Janeiro, Cidade Universitária-Ilha Do Fundão, CCMN/IGEO 21.949-900, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2. Centro de Geociências, Universidade de Coimbra, Rua Sílvio Lima, 3030-790 Coimbra, Portugal
Interests: paleontology; geology

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Department of Geology, Babeş-Bolyai University, RO-3400 Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Interests: vertebrate palaeontology: dinosauria (Late Cretaceous); mammalia (Late Cretaceous and Cenozoic); paleobiogeography; petroleum geology; geology of Romania; Quaternary geology


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Naturalis Biodiversity Center, 2333 CR Leiden, The Netherlands
Interests: vertebrate paleontology; paleo-anthropology; evolution of mammals on islands; pleistocene mammals; migration of fauna's and peleo-ecosystems

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National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET), Diamante, Entre Ríos 3105, Argentina
Interests: interdisciplinary studies of Palaeozoic palynology, microfossils and floras

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Department of Biology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3280, USA
Interests: evolutionary biology; vertebrate evolution; avian evolution and paleontology; conservation biology

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1. European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, 71 Av. des Martyrs, 38000 Grenoble, France
2. Imaging and Analysis Centre, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, South Kensington, London SW7 5BD, UK
Interests: palaeontology; computed tomography; synchrotron; Karoo; therapsids

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División Paleontología Vertebrados, Unidades de Investigación Anexo Museo de La Plata, Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Museo, UNLP. CONICET. 122 y 60, 1900 La Plata, Argentina
Interests: Quaternary mammals; Great American Biotic Interchange; North American ungulates immigrants; paleoecology; paleobiogeography; taxonomy; biostratigraphy

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División Paleontología Vertebrados, Museo de La Plata, Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Museo, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Paseo del Bosque s/n, CP B1900FWA La Plata, Argentina
Interests: paleontology; paleobiology; anatomy; fossil birds

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Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, China
Interests: fossil insects; amber research; Mesozoic insects
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Department of Sedimentary Geology, Institute of Earth Sciences, St. Petersburg State University, 16 Liniya, 29, St. Petersburg 199034, Russia
Interests: Palaeozoic chondrichthyan and placoderm fishes

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Laboratory of Geology and Palaeontology, School of Geology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 54124 Thessaloniki, Greece
Interests: mammal palaeontology; artiodactyla; neogene; quaternary; systematics; phylogeny; palaeoecology
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Department of Zoology, Denver Museum of Nature & Science, 2001 Colorado Blvd, Denver, CO 80205-5798, USA
Interests: scarabaeoid beetles; taxonomy; systematics; palaeontology; evolution; zoological nomenclature; taxonomic history and practice; community ecology and biodiversity research; chemical ecology; history of natural history

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Department of Palaeontology, University of Vienna, 1090 Vienna, Austria
Interests: cartilaginous and bony fishes; evolution; palaeobiology; evolutionary developmental biology of vertebrates; diversity and disparity patterns of vertebrates in deep-time
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Centre de Recherche en Paléontologie–Paris, UMR 7207, Sorbonne Université, Muséum National d’histoire Naturelle, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, 8 Rue Buffon, 75005 Paris, France
Interests: Permo-Carboniferous stegocephalians

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Department of Life Sciences, University of Bath, Claverton Down, Bath BA2 7AY, UK
Interests: paleontology; evolution; extinction; macroevolution; archaeology

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New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science, 1801 Mountain Road N. W., Albuquerque, NM 87104-1375, USA
Interests: paleontology, biostratigraphy and stratigraphy, especially of nonmarine deposits; vertebrate paleontology and ichnology, particularly of the late Paleozoic, Mesozoic and Cenozoic

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Department of Geology and Palayontology, Natural History Museum Vienna, 1010 Vienna, Austria
Interests: palaeoecology; palaeoclimatology; palaeoenvironments; Triassic to Cretaceous

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Department of Life and Environmental Science, Polytechnic University of Marche, 60131 Ancona, Italy
Interests: stratigraphy; palaeoceanography; palaeoclimatology; paleoenvironment micropaleontology; neogene; mediterranean sea; sapropel
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Université de Rennes, CNRS, Géosciences Rennes, UMR 6118, 35000 Rennes, France
Interests: amber; echinoids; early invertebrates; ichnofossils; insects; oysters; palaeoecology; palaeoenvironments; fossilization; exceptional preservation; ediacaran; early cambrian; cretaceous; eocene; late miocene

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Department of Geosciences, University of Padova, 35131 Padova, Italy
Interests: stratigraphy; geochemistry; palaeontology; climate; mass extinctions; oceanic anoxic events
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Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, China
Interests: paleobotany; fossil plants; plant evolution; plant systematics

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Department of Botany, Connecticut College, New London, CT 06320-4196, USA
Interests: aquatic fossils with a focus on eukaryotes that produce siliceous structures (e.g., synurophytes, chrysophytes, diatoms, euglyphids); reconstructing past environments; biological proxies; paleolimnology; tracing morphological changes over geologic time
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