About the Authors

Mark T. Young

zoologika@gmail.com

Affiliation School of Geosciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Stephen L. Brusatte

Affiliations Division of Paleontology, American Museum of Natural History, New York City, New York, United States of America, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Columbia University, New York City, New York, United States of America

Marco Brandalise de Andrade

Affiliation Departamento de Paleontologia e Estratigrafia, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil

Julia B. Desojo

Affiliation División de Paleontología, Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales ‘Bernardino Rivadavia’, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Brian L. Beatty

Affiliation Department of Anatomy, New York College of Osteopathic Medicine, Old Westbury, New York, United States of America

Lorna Steel

Affiliation Department of Earth Sciences, Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom

Marta S. Fernández

Affiliation Departamento Paleontología de Vertebrados, Museo de La Plata, La Plata, Argentina

Manabu Sakamoto

Affiliation School of Earth Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom

Jose Ignacio Ruiz-Omeñaca

Affiliations Museo del Jurásico de Asturias (MUJA), Colunga, Spain, Departamento de Geología, Universidad de Oviedo, Oviedo, Spain

Rainer R. Schoch

Affiliation Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde, Stuttgart, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MTY. Performed the experiments: MTY MS. Analyzed the data: MTY SLB BLB MS JIR-O. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MBdA JBD LS MSF JIR-O RRS. Wrote the paper: MTY SLB BLB JIR-O.