About the Authors

Pascal Godefroit

Pascal.Godefroit@naturalsciences.be

Affiliation Department of Palaeontology, Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique, Bruxelles, Belgium

Yuri L. Bolotsky

Affiliation Institute of Geology and Nature Management, Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Blagoveschensk, Russia

Pascaline Lauters

Affiliations Department of Palaeontology, Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique, Bruxelles, Belgium, Section of Anthropology, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Bruxelles, Belgium

Competing Interests

The authors received logistic support from Pakrovskiy Rudnik Gold Mining Company. This does not alter the authors’ adherence to all the PLos ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PG YB PL. Performed the experiments: PG YB PL. Analyzed the data: PG YB PL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PG YB PL. Wrote the paper: PG PL.