About the Authors

Darren Curnoe

Contributed equally to this work with: Darren Curnoe, Xueping Ji

d.curnoe@unsw.edu.au (DC); jxpchina@foxmail.com (XJ)

Affiliation Palaeontology, Geobiology and Earth Archives Research Centre, School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia

Xueping Ji

Contributed equally to this work with: Darren Curnoe, Xueping Ji

d.curnoe@unsw.edu.au (DC); jxpchina@foxmail.com (XJ)

Affiliation Yunnan Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology, Kunming, Yunnan, China

Wu Liu

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Vertebrate Evolution and Human Origins, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Zhende Bao

Affiliation Mengzi Institute of Cultural Relics, Mengzi, Yunnan, China

Paul S. C. Taçon

Affiliation Place, Evolution and Rock Art Heritage Unit, School of Humanities, Gold Coast Campus, Griffith University, Queensland, Australia

Liang Ren

Affiliation Mengzi Institute of Cultural Relics, Mengzi, Yunnan, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DC XJ. Performed the experiments: DC XJ. Analyzed the data: DC XJ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DC XJ ZB LR. Wrote the paper: DC XJ WL ZB PT LR.