About the Authors

Agustín Scanferla

agustin_scanferla@yahoo.com.ar

Affiliation Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas Y Técnicas, Instituto de Bio y Geociencias del NOA, Museo de Ciencias Naturales de Salta, Salta, Argentina

Hussam Zaher

Affiliation Museu de Zoologia, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brasil

Fernando E. Novas

Affiliation Laboratorio de Anatomía Comparada y Evolución de los Vertebrados, Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales “Bernardino Rivadavia”, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Christian de Muizon

Affiliation UMR 7207 CNRS, CP 38, Département Histoire de la Terre, Paris, France

Ricardo Céspedes

Affiliation Museo de Historia Natural “Alcide D´Orbigny”, Cochabamba, Bolivia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AS HZ. Performed the experiments: AS HZ. Analyzed the data: AS HZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AS HZ FN CM RC. Wrote the paper: AS HZ FN CM.