About the Authors

Paul Upchurch

p.upchurch@ucl.ac.uk

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

Philip D. Mannion

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

Michael P. Taylor

Affiliation School of Earth Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PU PDM MPT. Performed the experiments: PU PDM MPT. Analyzed the data: PU PDM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PU PDM MPT. Wrote the paper: PU PDM MPT.