Marcelina Kondas,^1,*,** Paweł Filipiak,^1,*** Pierre Breuer<sup>2,****

1</sup>Faculty of Natural Sciences, Institute of Earth Sciences, University of Silesia in Katowice, Sosnowiec, Poland
²Saudi Aramco, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia

^*CONTACT Marcelina Kondas marcelina.kondas@gmail.com Faculty of Natural Sciences, Institute of Earth Sciences, University of Silesia in Katowice, Będzińska 60, Sosnowiec 41-200, Poland
^**Marcelina Kondas was born in 1990 and is a PhD student in the Faculty of Natural Sciences, University of Silesia in Katowice. Her research interests are in Devonian palynology, including palynostratigraphy, palaeoecology, palaeogeography and palynofacies analysis.
^***Paweł Filipiak graduated in geology and received his PhD (1998) and habilitation (2011) in geology from the University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland. His main research interests are currently the palaeopalynology and palaeobotany of Palaeozoic rocks (mainly Devonian and Carboniferous). He has held teaching and research positions at the University of Silesia in Katowice in the Faculty of Natural Sciences.
^****Pierre Breuer is a palynologist with Saudi Aramco. After obtaining MSc degrees in geology and palaeontology from Liège, Belgium, and Lille, France, he received his PhD in geology from the Liège University in 2008. His PhD was focused on Devonian spores from northern Gondwana. He has been working for Saudi Aramco since 2008. His current studies include stratigraphy, palaeogeography and palaeoecology of palynological assemblages from the entire Palaeozoic and Mesozoic on the Arabian Plate.