Axel Tejada-Fajardohttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-1098-0367,^1,2,* Juan-Felipe Montenegrohttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-5165-183X,^1,** María-Isabel La Torrehttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-6695-4083,^3,*** Brenda Oroscohttps://orcid.org/0009-0007-5449-1510,^1,2,**** Diana Ochoahttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-6242-4202<sup>1,4,*****,******

1</sup>Laboratorios de Investigación y Desarrollo, Centro de Investigación para el Desarrollo Integral y Sostenible (CIDIS), Facultad de Ciencias e Ingeniería, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Perú
²Departamento de Biología, Universidad Nacional Federico Villarreal, Lima, Perú
³Herbario del Museo de Historia Natural – Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, Perú
⁴Departamento de Geología, Universidad de Salamanca, Salamanca, España

^*Axel Tejada is a biology undergraduate student at the Universidad Nacional Federico Villarreal (Peru). His research interests focus on botanical evolution, taxonomy, and palynology. He is interested in understanding how Peruvian ecosystems have changed and developed over time. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1098-0367
^**Juan-Felipe Montenegro is a biologist specialized in palynology and plant morphology. Currently, he is developing his master's thesis at the Biogeosciences Laboratory at the Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia (Peru). His thesis focuses on reconstructing the middle Miocene vegetation of the southern Peruvian coast based on leaf fossils, wood, and pollen assemblages. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5165-183X
^***María Isabel La Torre is a faculty member at the Universidad Nacional Federico Villarreal (Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics). She holds a master's degree in tropical botany from the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos (Peru), and specializes in taxonomy of the Poaceae family and other vascular plants. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6695-4083
^****Brenda Orosco is currently doing an internship at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) in Panama. She is completing her undergraduate thesis, which centers around the pollen morphology of both fossil and extant Neotropical species of Sanguisorbeae (Rosaceae). Her research focuses on reconstructing tropical ecosystems through the analysis of modern and fossilized pollen samples. https://orcid.org/0009-0007-5449-1510
^*****CONTACT Diana Ochoa ✉ diana.ochoa@usal.es Laboratorios de Investigación y Desarrollo, Centro de Investigación para el Desarrollo Integral y Sostenible (CIDIS), Facultad de Ciencias e Ingeniería, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Perú
^******Diana Ochoa is a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at Salamanca University (Spain) and an invited researcher at Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia (Peru). Her research focuses on understanding the onset and evolution of the Humboldt Current and its role in shaping global and regional climates, ecosystems, and landscapes. She is also interested in understanding the evolution of the South American Pacific coastal floras, varying from tropical forest to mangroves to dry forests and deserts. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6242-4202.