Madhav Kumar,^1,* Priyanka Monga,^1,** Anumeha Shukla,^{1,***,****,*****} R.C. Mehrotra<sup>1,******

1</sup>Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeosciences, Lucknow, India

^*Dr Madhav Kumar is Scientist ‘F’ at the Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeosciences, Lucknow (India). He has 35 years of research experience with specialisation in palynology, morphotaxonomy, palynofacies, palynostratigraphy and determination of palaeoenvironment of the surface and subsurface late Mesozoic - Cenozoic sedimentary successions of northeastern, northwestern and central basins of India.
^**Miss Priyanka Monga completed her MSc in Botany at the Punjab University, Chandigarh. She worked as a Birbal Sahni Research Scholar during April 2012— March 2016 at the Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeosciences, Lucknow. She has submitted her thesis for the award of PhD on the topic ‘Palynostratigraphy, palynofacies and depositional environments of the early Tertiary sediments of Cambay Basin, Gujarat, India’.
^***CONTACT Anumeha Shukla anu_bsip@yahoo.co.in
^****Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeosciences, 53 University Road, Lucknow-226007, India
^*****Dr Anumeha Shukla obtained her PhD degree in Botany from the University of Lucknow, Lucknow in 2011. She worked as a Birbal Sahni Research Scholar (BSRS) and Birbal Sahni Research Associate (BSRA) at the Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeosciences, Lucknow while carrying out research for her PhD and thereafter. Presently, she has been working as Scientist ‘C’ at the same place. Her research is focused on plant diversity through the Cenozoic of western India based on plant megaremains. She is also interested in palaeoclimate reconstruction qualitatively as well as quantitatively.
^******R. C. Mehrotra obtained his PhD degree on the Deccan intertrappean flora of India from Lucknow University in 1986. He is Scientist ‘F’ in the Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeosciences, Lucknow. At present, he has been working on the Cenozoic megaflora of western and northeast India. He has been working on the CLAMP (Climate Leaf AnalysisMultivariate Program) and CA (Coexistence Analysis) for quantitative estimation of palaeoclimate.