B.F. Becker,^1,* S.A.F. da Silva-Caminha,^1,** R.L. Guerreiro,^2,*** E.J. de Oliveira,^1,**** C. D'Apolito,^1,3,***** M.L. Assine<sup>4,******

1</sup>aPaleontology and Palynology Laboratory, Department of Geosciences, Universidade Federal de Mato Gro
²cInstituto Federal do Paraná (IFPR), Campus Assis Chateaubriand, Av. Cívica475, Centro Cívico, Assis
³dSmithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI), Box 0843-03092, Balboa, Ancon, Republic of Panama
⁴bInstituto de Geociências, Unesp – Univ Estadual Paulista Rio Claro-SP, Av. 24 A, 1515, Rio Claro-SP

^*Bárbara Fernandes Becker is a biologist at the Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso (UFMT), and holds a master's degree in geosciences from the same institution. She currently works as a school science teacher, and as a collaborator of the palynology laboratory of Instituto de Geociências, UFMT, Cuiabá-MT, Brazil (PALMA). Her main interests are Quaternary palynology and environmental shifts during the Holocene in the Brazilian Pantanal.
^**Silane Aparecida Ferreira Da Silva-Caminha is a biologist at the Universidade Federal de Rondônia, Brazil. She holds a master's degree in botany from the National Institute of Amazonic Research – INPA. Her PhD topic was in ecology, and Silane studied at INPA and the Smithsonian Tropical Research Insitute. Currently she is a professor at the Faculdade de Geociências at the Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso (UFMT), and is the leader of the Mato Grosso Palynology and Amazonian Palynology research groups. Her main interests are in modern palynology and environmental shifts during the Paleogene/Neogene and Quaternary of Amazonia and the Brazilian Pantanal.
^***Renato Lada Guerreiro is a geographer at the Universidade Estadual do Paraná at Campo Mourão. He holds master's degrees in geography from the Universidade Estadual de Maringá, and in geosciences and environmental studies from UNESP. Renato has a PhD in geosciences and environmental studies from the latter institution. Currently he works as a professor at the Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia do Paraná. His main interests are palaeoenvironmental and palaeoclimatic shifts in the Quaternary of Pantanal, and analysis of multiproxies and landscape evolution.
^****Edvaldo José De Oliveira is a geologist at the Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso (UFMT). He has a master's degree in geosciences from the same institution, working on the Holocene palynology of the Pantanal Basin, Brazil. Edvaldo currently works as a geologist at the Public Ministry of the State of Mato Grosso, Brazil. This institution's main interests are environmental changes and the palynology of sedimentary basins.
^*****Carlos D'Apolito is a postdoctoral researcher with the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama, and is a visiting researcher at Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso (UFMT) in Cuiabá, Brazil. His main research interests are the evolution of vegetation and landscapes, palynology, palynostratigraphy and palaeobiogeography in neotropical areas during the Mesozoic and Cenozoic.
^******Mario Luis Assine is a geologist at the Universidade Estadual Paulista Rio Claro (UNESP). He has a master's degree in regional geology from UNESP. Mario also holds a PhD in geosciences from the same institution. Currently he works as a professor in the Department of Geology at UNESP. His main interests are in the analysis of sedimentary basins such as the Araripe, Paraná, Campus and Santos depocentres, and the study of Quaternary geology, mainly the Pantanal Basin of Brazil.