About the Authors

Rudy Lerosey-Aubril

leroseyaubril@gmail.com

Affiliation Department of Palaeontology and Historical Geology, Senckenberg Research Institute, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Thomas A. Hegna

Affiliations Department of Geology and Geophysics, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America, Department of Geology, Western Illinois University, Macomb, Illinois, United States of America

Carlo Kier

Affiliation Back to the Past Museum, Puerto Morelos, Quintana Roo, Mexico

Enrico Bonino

Affiliation Back to the Past Museum, Puerto Morelos, Quintana Roo, Mexico

Jörg Habersetzer

Affiliation Department of Palaeoanthropology and Messel Research, Senckenberg Research Institute, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Matthieu Carré

Affiliation Institute of Evolutionary Sciences, University Montpellier II, Montpellier, France

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RL-A TAH JH MC. Performed the experiments: RL-A TAH JH MC. Analyzed the data: RL-A TAH JH MC CK EB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RL-A JH CK EB. Wrote the paper: RL-A TAH.