About the Authors

Leonardo Maiorino

leonardo.maiorino@uniroma3.it

Affiliations Dipartimento di Scienze, Università Roma Tre, Rome, Italy, Center for Evolutionary Ecology, Rome, Italy

Andrew A. Farke

Affiliation Raymond M. Alf Museum of Paleontology, Claremont, California, United States of America

Tassos Kotsakis

Affiliations Dipartimento di Scienze, Università Roma Tre, Rome, Italy, Center for Evolutionary Ecology, Rome, Italy

Paolo Piras

Affiliations Dipartimento di Scienze, Università Roma Tre, Rome, Italy, Center for Evolutionary Ecology, Rome, Italy

Competing Interests

Andrew A. Farke is a PLOS ONE editorial board member. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all of the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LM PP. Performed the experiments: LM PP. Analyzed the data: LM AAF. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LM PP. Wrote the manuscript: LM AAF TK PP.