About the Authors

Catalina Pimiento

pimientoc@ufl.edu

Affiliations Department of Biology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America, Division of Vertebrate Paleontology, Florida Museum of Natural History, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America, Center of Paleoecology and Archaeology, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama, Republic of Panama

Dana J. Ehret

Affiliations Division of Vertebrate Paleontology, Florida Museum of Natural History, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America, School of Natural Resources and Environment, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Bruce J. MacFadden

Affiliations Division of Vertebrate Paleontology, Florida Museum of Natural History, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America, Division of Research on Learning (DRL), Education and Human Resources (EHR), National Science Foundation, Arlington, Virginia, United States of America

Gordon Hubbell

Affiliation Jaws International, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CP DJE BJM. Performed the experiments: CP. Analyzed the data: CP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CP GH. Wrote the paper: CP. Intellectual support and editorial input: DJE BJM GH.