Left: James Riding pictured in the grounds of the Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeosciences, Lucknow, India in November 2015. Jim is standing next to a magnificent specimen of the trunk of Agathoxylon (formerly Dadoxylon), from the Upper Permian of West Bengal, eastern India. Agathoxylon is a form genus of gymnospermous wood, which was common from the Carboniferous to the Triassic. Right: James Riding working at an onshore rigsite in Papua New Guinea during June 2023.

James Brian Riding is currently an Emeritus Researcher in palynology at the British Geological Survey (BGS), Keyworth, Nottingham, UK. He was born on the...

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