About the Authors

Roger B. J. Benson

roger.benson@earth.ox.ac.uk

Affiliation Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Nicolás E. Campione

Affiliations Departments of Earth Sciences (Palaeobiology) and Organismal Biology (Evolution and Development), Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

Matthew T. Carrano

Affiliation Department of Paleobiology, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, United States of America

Philip D. Mannion

Affiliation Department of Earth Science and Engineering, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Corwin Sullivan

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

Paul Upchurch

Affiliation Department of Earth Sciences, University College London, London, United Kingdom

David C. Evans

Affiliations Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, Department of Natural History, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

The author(s) have made the following declarations about their contributions: Conceived and designed the experiments: RBJB NEC DCE. Analyzed the data: RBJB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RBJB NEC MTC PDM CS PU DCE. Wrote the paper: RBJB NEC MTC PDM CS PU DCE.