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Honorary Members

  • Ray Bernor, Hans de Bruijn (), Mikael Fortelius, Sevket Sen and Lars Werdelin

Advisory Board

General coordination and database development

  • General NOW coordinator – Indrė Žliobaitė
  • Associate NOW coordinators – Lars van den Hoek Ostende, Isaac Casanovas-Vilar, Kari Lintulaakso
  • Database development – Kari Lintulaakso
  • Data curators – Melike Bilgin, Yanell Braumuller, Diana Pushkina and Oscar Wilson
  • Data development – John Damuth and Jukka Jernvall
  • Open data – Laura Säilä
  • NOW Office Manager – Susanna Sova

Steering Group

  • Indrė Žliobaitė, Ray Bernor, Isaac Casanovas-Vilar, Mikael Fortelius, Lars van den Hoek Ostende, Christine Janis, Kari Lintulaakso, Lars Werdelin

Emeritus Board

  • Pierre-Olivier Antoine, Elmar Heizmann, Christine Janis, Jordi Agustí, Sevket Sen, George Koufos, Constantin Doukas, Tony Barnosky, Mikael Fortelius, Peter Andrews, Lorenzo Rook, Pierre Mein

Regional coordinators

Europe
  • Western Europe – Lars van den Hoek Ostende
  • Central Europe – Gudrun Daxner-Höck
  • Eastern Europe – Adam Nadachowski and Nikolai Spassov
  • Eastern Mediterranean and Greece – Dimitris Kostopoulos
  • Italy – Luca Pandolfi
  • Carpathian Basin – Laszlo Kordos
  • Russia – Innessa Vislobokova and Alexey Tesakov
Asia
  • South and East Asia (small mammals) – Larry Flynn
  • Indian subcontinent – David Pilbeam and John Barry
  • China – Qiu Zhuding, Zhang Zhaoqun and Liu Liping
  • Southern Levant – Miriam Belmaker
Africa
  • Africa – Lars Werdelin, John Rowan
North America
  • North America – Samantha Hopkins
South America
  • South America – Darin Croft
Australia
  • Australia – Kenny Travouillon

Stratigraphy coordinators

  • General stratigraphic coordinator – Anu Kaakinen
  • John Kappelman
  • F.F. Steininger
  • Michael O. Woodburne
  • Barry Albright
  • Jessica Theodor
  • Qiu Zhuding
  • Palaeogene of North America – Jonathan Bloch
  • Neogene of North America – David Fox
  • Palaeogene of Eurasia – Wilma Wessels
  • Pleistocene and Holocene – Martin Sabol

Geology and taphonomy coordinators

  • Sedimentology – J.P. Lunkka and Anu Kaakinen
  • Taphonomy – Miranda Armour-Chelu

Trait coordinators

  • General body size coordinator – Juha Saarinen

Archaeology coordinators

  • Miikka Tallavaara

Taxonomy and ecomorphology coordinators, Eurasia and Africa

  • General coordinator of large mammals – Ray Bernor
  • General coordinator of small mammals – Lars van den Hoek Ostende
  • Insectivores – Marc Furió
  • Rodents – Isaac Casanovas-Vilar
  • Lagomorphs – Chiara Angelone
  • Hominoid primates – David Alba
  • Cercopithecoid and stem catarrhine primates – Eric Delson
  • Other primates
  • Christopher Beard (Asian non-catarrhines)
  • Raef Minwer Barakat (Omomyiformes and Adapiformes)
  • Sergi Lopez-Torres (Plesiadapiforms)
  • Feloid carnivorans – Lars Werdelin
  • Arctoid carnivorans – Suvi Viranta
  • Suiforms – Jan van der Made
  • Tragulids – Manuela Aiglstorfer
  • Moschids – Manuela Aiglstorfer
  • Oligocene ruminants – Bastien Mennecart
  • Cervids – Gertrud Rössner
  • Giraffids – Nikos Solounias, María Ríos Ibáñez
  • Bovids – Alan Gentry and Dimitris Kostopoulos
  • Equids – Ray Bernor and Mahito Watabe
  • Chalicotheres – Margery Coombs and Louis de Bonis
  • Tapirs – Luke Holbrook
  • Rhinoceroses – Kurt Heissig, Ioannis Giaourtsakis and Oscar Sanisidro
  • Proboscideans – Bill Sanders and Ursula Göhlich
  • Hyracoids – T.B.A
  • Tubulidentates – T.B.A
  • Hippopotamuses and anthracotheres – Jean-Renaud Boisserie

Taxonomy and ecomorphology coordinators, North America

  • General coordinator of North America – Samantha Hopkins
  • Multituberculates – John Hunter
  • Marsupials – Bill Korth
  • Proteutheria and insectivores – Shawn Zack and Tonya Penkrot
  • Rodents – Bill Korth (taxonomy) and Josh Samuels (ecomorphology)
  • Lagomorphs – Andrea Bair
  • Plesiadapiformes and Primates – Mary Silcox
  • Creodonts – Matt Borths
  • Carnivorans – Jon Baskin (taxonomy), Anthony Friscia and Blaire Van Valkenburgh (ecomorphology)
  • Condylarths and other Paleogene large mammals – Tonya Penkrot and Shawn Zack
  • Primitive Artiodactyls – TBD
  • Suiformes – Scott Foss
  • Oreodonts – Joshua Ludtke
  • Ruminants and camelids – Jessica Theodor
  • Non-equid perissodactyls – Matt Mihlbachler
  • Equids – Richard Hulbert and Michael O. Woodburne

South America coordinators

  • General coordinator of South America – Darin Croft
  • Basal caviomorphs and octodontoid rodents – Michelle Arnal
  • Platyrrhine primates – Siobhan Cooke
  • Paleogene of Northwest Argentina – Daniel García López

Palaeoecology coordinators

  • Kay Behrensmeyer
  • Jan van Dam
  • Thomas Kaiser
  • Peter Ungar
  • Torsten Utescher

Contact persons with related projects

  • MioMap – Samantha Hopkins
  • ROCEEH – Angela Bruch
  • Neogene birds – Ursula Göhlich
  • Fish, amphibians and reptiles – Madelaine Böhme
  • NECLIME – Torsten Utescher
  • FutTRES (>www.futres.org "Functional Trait Resource for Environmental Studies", a collaborative NSF funded project [U. Oregon, U. Arizona, U. Florida and Howard University) – Ray Bernor
  • CHARTER: Drivers and feedbacks of changes in Arctic terrestrial biodiversity – Jussi Eronen

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