About the Authors

Shaena Montanari

smontanari@amnh.org

Current address: American Museum of Natural History, Sackler Institute for Comparative Genomics, New York, New York, United States of America

Affiliation American Museum of Natural History, Richard Gilder Graduate School, New York, New York, United States of America

Julien Louys

Affiliation The University of Queensland, School of Earth Sciences, St. Lucia, QLD, Brisbane, Australia

Gilbert J. Price

Affiliation The University of Queensland, School of Earth Sciences, St. Lucia, QLD, Brisbane, Australia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SM JL GJP. Performed the experiments: SM JL. Analyzed the data: SM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SM JL GJP. Wrote the paper: SM. Obtained permission for use of fossil collections: JL.