About the Authors

Fangyuan Mao

maofangyuan@ivpp.ac.cn

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

Yuanqing Wang

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

Jin Meng

Affiliations Key Laboratory of Vertebrate Evolution and Human Origin of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, Division of Paleontology, American Museum of Natural History, New York, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: FM YW JM. Performed the experiments: FM JM YW. Analyzed the data: FM JM YW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: FM YW JM. Wrote the paper: FM JM YW. Fieldwork and data collection: YW FM JM.