Hamid Slimani,^1,*,** Stephen Louwye<sup>2,***

1</sup>aLaboratory of Geology and Remote Sensing, Scientific Institute, University Mohammed V-Agdal, Avenue
²bResearch Unit Palaeontology, Ghent University, Krijgslaan 281/S8, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium

^*Corresponding author. Email: slimani@israbat.ac.ma; h_slimani@yahoo.com
^**Hamid Slimani is professor of micropalaeontology in the Scientific Institute of the University Mohammed V-Agdal, Rabat, Morocco. He obtained his Licence (1986) in Geology from the University Mohammed VAgdal, his “Maîtrise interuniversitaire” in applied palaeontology (1989) from the University of Liège (Belgium) and his Ph.D. (1995) in Geology from the University of Ghent (Belgium). His research interests include the systematics, biostratigraphy, palaeoenvironments and palaeobiogeography of dinoflagellate cysts of the Cretaceous and Paleogene, mainly the Late Cretaceous, Paleocene and the Cretaceous—Paleogene boundary from Belgium, Morocco, The Netherlands and Tunisia.
^***Stephen Louwye is professor of palaeobotany and palynology at Ghent University in Belgium. He received his M.Sc. in 1984 and his Ph.D. in geology in 1990 from Ghent University. After several post-doctoral positions he was appointed professor in 2002. His research interests are Neogene palynology of the North Atlantic and North Sea Basin, sequence stratigraphy and palaeoclimatology.