About the Authors

Ben Thuy

nebyuht@yahoo.com

Affiliation Geoscience Centre, University of Göttingen, Department of Geobiology, Göttingen, Germany

Andy S. Gale

Affiliation School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth, United Kingdom

Andreas Kroh

Affiliation Natural History Museum Vienna, Department of Geology and Palaeontology, Vienna, Austria

Michal Kucera

Affiliation Marum – Centre for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany

Lea D. Numberger-Thuy

Affiliation Geoscience Centre, Museum, Collections and Geopark, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany

Mike Reich

Affiliations Geoscience Centre, University of Göttingen, Department of Geobiology, Göttingen, Germany, Geoscience Centre, Museum, Collections and Geopark, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany

Sabine Stöhr

Affiliation Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm, Sweden

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BT ASG MK. Performed the experiments: BT AK LDNT MR SS. Analyzed the data: BT ASG AK MK LDNT MR SS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MK. Wrote the paper: BT ASG MK.