About the Authors

Judith Pöppe

Affiliation Museum für Naturkunde, Department of Malacozoology, Leibniz Institute for Research on Evolution and Biodiversity at the Humboldt University Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Patricia Sutcliffe

Affiliation Biodiversity Program, Queensland Museum, South Brisbane, Australia

John N. A. Hooper

Affiliation Biodiversity Program, Queensland Museum, South Brisbane, Australia

Gert Wörheide

Affiliation Department of Earth- and Environmental Sciences, Palaeontology and Geobiology & GeoBio-CenterLMU, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Munich, Germany

Dirk Erpenbeck

erpenbeck@lmu.de

Affiliation Department of Earth- and Environmental Sciences, Palaeontology and Geobiology & GeoBio-CenterLMU, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Munich, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GW. Performed the experiments: JP. Analyzed the data: JP PS DE. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PS JH. Wrote the paper: JP DE.