Viktória Baranyihttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-1194-9903,^1,*,** Peta J. Mudie,^2,*** Imre Magyar,^3,4,**** Ádám Kovács,^5,***** Mária Sütő-Szentai,^6,****** Koraljka Bakračhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-2520-411X<sup>1,*******

1</sup>Department of Geology, Croatian Geological Survey, Zagreb, Croatia
²Geological Survey of Canada Atlantic, Dartmouth, NS, Canada
³MOL Hungarian Oil and Gas plc, Budapest, Hungary
⁴MTA-MTM-ELTE Research Group for Palaeontology, Budapest, Hungary
⁵Department of Geology, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary
⁶Laboratory of the Deep Well Drilling Company, Komló, Hungary

^*CONTACT Viktória Baranyi vbaranyi@hgi-cgs.hr Department of Geology, Croatian Geological Survey, Sachsova 2, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia
^**ViktÓria Baranyi is a postdoctoral researcher with the Croatian Geological Survey. Her work currently focuses on Neogene Lake Pannon and Paratethyan brackish-water dinoflagellate cysts, their morphology and endemic evolution. She has also expertise in Triassic–Jurassic terrestrial and marine palynomorphs, vegetation changes and organic geochemistry and has studied the biotic response to the Carnian Pluvial Episode (Late Triassic) and the Jenkyns Event (Early Jurassic). She received her PhD from the University of Oslo, Norway, in 2018. She is also involved in projects on palaeoenvironmental reconstruction, vegetation dynamics and stratigraphy of terrestrial Middle Triassic–Early Jurassic successions from the Ordos and Sichuan basins in China.
^***Peta J. Mudie has studied the Pliocene–Recent palynology of Mediterranean seas, including the Arctic Ocean, first as a postdoctoral student at Dalhousie University, then as a research scientist with the Geological Survey of Canada, combined with joint adjunct appointments at Memorial University of Newfoundland and Dalhousie University, for 35 years. Her field work includes four seasons on an ice island in the Canadian Arctic, work on Arctic icebreakers and ocean drilling ships, and International Geological Correlation Program excursions to Neogene–Pleistocene type sections around the Black Sea.
^****Imre Magyar is a geologist with MOL Hungarian Oil and Gas Company, and a member of the MTA-MTM-ELTE Research Group for Palaeontology Budapest (Hungarian Academy of Sciences). He received his PhD from the Eötvös University, Budapest, in 1995, and worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Geological and Geophysics Department of the University of Wisconsin, Madison between 1996 and 1998. His major interest is in the endemic evolution and adaptive radiation of molluscs in long-lived lakes and stratigraphy (including biostratigraphy and seismic stratigraphy) and depositional history of lacustrine basins in the Paratethyan region. He has carried out research on the endemic mollusc fauna and deposits of Lake Pannon, a Late Miocene–Pliocene long-lived lake in the Pannonian Basin. Various aspects of this fossil fauna, including its origin, palaeoecology, tempo and mode of evolution, phylogenetic relationships, etc. have been addressed in his studies. His stratigraphical and palaeogeographical research has provided a firm basis for palaeobiological and palaeobiogeographical interpretations.
^*****ÁdÁm KovÁcs is a PhD student at the Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary. In his master's thesis he focused on the Upper Miocene strata of the Drava Basin, including the ones in the Našice Quarry. Currently, he is building numerical stratigraphical models to study the Late Miocene evolution of the Pannonian Basin, with special attention to the formation of unconformities and the clinoform architecture in lacustrine settings.
^******MÁria SÜtŐ-SzentaI is a retired palynologist from Komló, Hungary. She started as a geological technician at the Laboratory of the former Deep Well Drilling Company Komló, Hungary, where she specialised in the palynological analysis of Neogene sediments. She pioneered in the analysis of Lake Pannon dinoflagellate cysts and described one new genus, 22 species and eight subspecies of dinoflagellate cysts, as well as two new prasinophyte species. Her work resulted in a Lake Pannon dinoflagellate cyst zonation scheme that is still frequently used in hydrocarbon exploration and cross-correlation of the deep lacustrine sediments of Lake Pannon. Recently she has been working on a compendium of Silurian to Holocene organic-walled microplankton taxa recorded in Hungarian geological profiles.
^*******Koraljka BakraČ is a research scientist with the Geological Survey of Croatia in their Geological Department. She has focused mainly on the Cenozoic dinoflagellate cysts from the Central Paratethys Sea – their stratigraphy and ecology. Most recently she has worked on projects involving Holocene palynomorph assemblages from the eastern Adriatic Sea and coastal lakes. This work includes spores and pollen as well as nonpollen palynomorphs.