About the Authors

Neil Brocklehurst

neil.brocklehurst@mfn-berlin.de

Affiliation Museum für Naturkunde, Leibniz-Institut für Evolutions und Biodiversitätsforschung, Berlin, Germany

Paul Upchurch

Affiliation Department of Earth Sciences, UCL, London, United Kingdom

Philip D. Mannion

Affiliations Museum für Naturkunde, Leibniz-Institut für Evolutions und Biodiversitätsforschung, Berlin, Germany, Department of Earth Science and Engineering, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Jingmai O'Connor

Affiliations Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Beijing, China, Dinosaur Institute, Natural History Museum of LA County, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Analyzed the data: NB. Wrote the paper: NB PU PDM. Scrutinised the dataset and removed taxa which were Nomina Dubia and Nomina Nuda, and suggested further taxa for inclusion: JOC.