A worldwide review of fossil and extant glypheid and litogastrid lobsters (Crustacea, Decapoda, Glypheoidea)

Sylvain Charbonnier, Maître de Conférences and curator of fossil invertebrates at the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris, studies exceptionally preserved fossils from Konservat-Lagerstätten (La Voulte, Canjuers, Cerin). His palaeontological work focuses in particular on Mesozoic marine arthropods and the reconstruction of their palaeoecosystems. Alessandro Garassino, curator of the Department of Invertebrate Palaeontology of the Natural History Museum, Milan, is specialized on Mesozoic and Cenozoic sites with exceptional preservation (Osteno, Lebanon, Las Noyas).
His activity is essentially based on taxonomic study of fossil decapod crustaceans, at the sanie time trying to establish possible phylogenetic relationships between fossil and recent taxa. Günter Schweigert, curator of fossil invertebrates from the Mesozoic at the Natural History Museum in Stuttgart, Germany, is a specialist of decapod crustaceans, ammonites and ammonite biostratigraphy of the Ju rassic.
His main scientific interests focus on the famous Jurassic Fossillagerststten of Southern Germany, such as Holzmaden, Nusplingen and Solnhofen. Martin Simpson is a research associate at the University of Southampton, UK, and is involved in an ongoing study of British Mesozoic macruran decapods. He specialises in mecochirids and the fossil rich locality of Atherheld, Isle of Wight. He has made significant collections personally from the Cretaceous exposures of the Isle of Wight, Dorset and Yorkshire.