Daiana Fonteshttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-9726-8473,^1,*,** Carlos Jaramillohttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-2616-5079,^1,*** J. Enrique Morenohttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-9767-7522<sup>1,****

1</sup>Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI), Panama, Republic of Panama

^*CONTACT Daiana Fontes daianafontes@gmail.com Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI), Panama, Republic of Panama
^**Daiana Fontes is a palynologist that worked at Center of Tropical Paleoecology and Archaeology (Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute) in the area of pollen morphology of Amazonian vegetation. She works in the fields of Paleontology and Palynology, with emphasis on Quaternary studies, descriptions of current pollen morphology and reconstitutions of paleoenvironments and paleoclimates.
^***Carlos A. Jaramillo is a staff scientist in the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama. His research investigates the causes, patterns, and processes of tropical biodiversity at diverse scales in time and space. Carlos is also interested in Mesozoic and Cenozoic biostratigraphy of low latitudes, developing methods for high-resolution biostratigraphy and the palaeobiogeography of Tethys.
^****J. Enrique Moreno is a palynologist at Center for Tropical Paleoecology and Archaeology (Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute) that investigates the fields of entomology (bees), Quaternary climatic changes, paleoecology of the Miocene (in Panama) and collaborates in the paleontological and archaeological studies of the Isthmus. He is coauthor of the “Pollen and Spores of Barro Colorado Island” and “Amazon Pollen Manual and Atlas” books and of pioneering palynological compilations of tropical American pollen of international repercussion. He is currently involved in the project on the “dynamics of pollen dispersal in tropical forests”.