Nabil M. Aboul Ela,^1,* Sameh S. Tahounhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-0425-8848,^1,** Aya Raafat<sup>1,***,****

1</sup>Geology Department, Faculty of Science, Cairo University, Giza, Egypt

^*Nabil Aboul Ela is an emeritus professor of palynology in the Geology Department, Cairo University, Egypt. He received his Ph.D. (1975) from Moscow State University. He has long research career via guiding many postgraduate students in their studies for research theses and dissertations. He has broad technical background and palynological experience from studying many wells in different areas of Egypt.
^**Sameh S. Tahoun is an associate professor in the Geology Department at Cairo University, Egypt. He received his BSc (1999), MSc (2004) and PhD (2008) from Cairo University. His research interests are focused on palynological stratigraphical applications in oil industry and the biostratigraphy of Egypt and Middle East. His main research interest and publications include Mesozoic quantitative palynology for biostratigraphical correlation, palynofacies studies, thermal maturation, sequence recognition and palaeoenvironmental reconstructions.
^***CONTACT Aya Raafat Ayar210@yahoo.com Geology Department, Faculty of Science, Cairo University, Giza, Egypt.
^****Aya Raafat is an assistant lecturer in the Geology Department at Cairo University, Egypt. She received her BSc (2011) and MSc (2016) from Cairo University. Her overall research interests include palynostratigraphy, palaeoenvironmental reconstruction and biostratigraphy. Her expertise also includes interpretation of clastic/carbonate sequence Stratigraphy.