Sadhan K. Basumatary,^1,* Bikash Gogoi,^2,** Vandana Prasad<sup>1,***

1</sup>aBirbal Sahni Institute of Palaeobotany, 53 University Road, Lucknow 226007, Uttar Pradesh, India;
²bDepartment of Geological Sciences, Gauhati Univesity, Guwahati 781014, Assam, India

^*Sadhan K. Basumatary was awarded a BSc from the University of Gauhati in 1995, a M.Sc. in botany (special paper Microbiology) from the University of Gauhati in 1998 and a Ph.D. on Quaternary palynology from the University of Lucknow in 2011. He is currently a Scientist “C” at the Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeobotany in Lucknow, working on Quaternary palynology using multiproxy data. He has 14 years' research experience, and has published 65 papers in national and international journals.
^**Bikash Gogoi was awarded a B.Sc. (Honours) from the University of Dibrugarh in 1997, a M.Sc. in geology from the University of Gauhati in 2000 and a Ph.D. on sedimentology and palaeontology from the University of Dibrugarh in 2006. He is currently an Assistant Professor in geology, Gauhati University, Assam (India), working on palynology and lithofacies analysis. He has 15 years' research experience and published numbers of research articles in reputed journals.
^***Vandana Prasad was awarded a M.Sc. in botany from the University of Lucknow in 1985 and a Ph.D. from Lucknow University in 1992. She is involved in the study of silicified remains of plants (phytoliths) preserved in Late Cretaceous (65 Ma) dinosaur coprolites and evolutionary history of tropical rain forest vegetation. Her interest lies in the study of dinoflagellates, pollen spore and phytoliths to decipher palaeoclimatic fluctuations during Pre-Quaternary and Quaternary. She is currently working as a Scientist “E” at the Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeobotany in Lucknow. She has published numbers of research papers in reputed national and international journals.