About the Authors

Nathalie Bardet

bardet@mnhn.fr

Affiliation CNRS UMR 7207, Département Histoire de la Terre, Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France

Nour-Eddine Jalil

Affiliation Cadi Ayyad University, Faculty of Sciences Semlalia, Department of Earth Sciences, Vertebrate Evolution and Palaeoenvironnements, Marrakech, Morocco

France de Lapparent de Broin

Affiliation CNRS UMR 7207, Département Histoire de la Terre, Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France

Damien Germain

Affiliation CNRS UMR 7207, Département Histoire de la Terre, Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France

Olivier Lambert

Affiliation Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique, Département de Paléontologie, Bruxelles, Belgium

Mbarek Amaghzaz

Affiliation Office Chérifien des Phosphates, Centre Minier de Khouribga, Khouribga, Morocco

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Provided the logistic facilities during field work: MA. Provided the animated 3D reconstruction: DG. Conceived and designed the experiments: NB NEJ FLB DG OL. Performed the experiments: NB NEJ FLB DG OL. Analyzed the data: NB NEJ FLB DG OL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: NB NEJ FLB DG OL. Wrote the paper: NB NEJ FLB DG OL.