Hans Halbwachshttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-4722-8160,^1,*,** Friðgeir Grímssonhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-1874-6412,^2,*** Marina Potapovahttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-5143-5213,^3,**** Martina Dolezychhttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-8701-340X,^4,***** Ben LePagehttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-3155-7373<sup>5,6,******

1</sup>Faculty of Biological Sciences, Institute for Ecology, Evolution and Diversity, Conservation Biology, Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
²Department of Botany and Biodiversity Research, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
³Department of Biodiversity, Earth and Environmental Science, Drexel University Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA
⁴Senckenberg Natural History Collections, Dresden, Germany
⁵National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan
⁶Academy of Natural Sciences Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA

^*CONTACT Hans Halbwachs hans.waxcap@online.de Faculty of Biological Sciences, Institute for Ecology, Evolution and Diversity, Conservation Biology, Goethe University Frankfurt, 60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
^**Hans Halbwachs is a mycologist with a focus on fungal ecology. He has been an associate researcher at the Bavarian Forest National Park since 2008 and at Goethe University Frankfurt, Department of Conservation Biology since 2020. Since 2017, he has engaged in fungal paleontology and trait-based fungal ecology.
^***Friðgeir Grímsson is a paleobotanist and palynologist with a geological background. His focus is on pollen from Mesozoic to modern-day samples. He is a Senior Scientist at the Department of Botany and Biodiversity Research, University of Vienna, where he runs the electron microscopy laboratories, teaches various courses related to palynology and electron microscopy, and conducts palynological research
^****Marina Potapova is a curator of Diatom Herbarium at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University, Philadelphia, USA. Her research interests are in the taxonomy, ecology, and biogeography of inland and coastal diatoms.
^*****Martina Dolezych is a paleontologist affiliated to the Senckenberg Natural History Collections Dresden in Germany. Her research focuses on the wood anatomy analyses of Cenozoic deposits. She is also interested in the stratigraphy and reconstruction of the palaeoenvironment.
^******Ben Lepage is trained as a biologist and geologist and has focused mainly on the taxonomy and paleoecology of Cenozoic high Arctic fossil forests with interest in the biogeographic and evolutionary histories of the Pinaceae and Cupressaceae (Taxodiaceae). He is currently a Distinguished Visiting Chair Professor in the Graduate Institute of Environmental Education at National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan. Prior to this, he spent around 20 years in the utility industry, leading project teams to develop innovative compliance and remediation strategies, and about eight years at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.