About the Authors

Christopher L. Mah

mahch@si.edu

Affiliations Department of Invertebrate Zoology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America, Department of Biological Sciences, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States of Ameica

Daniel B. Blake

Affiliation Department of Geology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Wrote the paper: CLM DBB.