About the Authors

Sanaa E. El-Sayed

sanaa_elsayed@mans.edu.eg, muvp.eg@gmail.com

Affiliation Mansoura University Vertebrate Paleontology Center (MUVP), Department of Geology, Faculty of Science, Mansoura University, Mansoura, Egypt

Mahmoud A. Kora

Contributed equally to this work with: Mahmoud A. Kora, Hesham M. Sallam, Kerin M. Claeson, Erik R. Seiffert, Mohammed S. Antar

Affiliation Mansoura University Vertebrate Paleontology Center (MUVP), Department of Geology, Faculty of Science, Mansoura University, Mansoura, Egypt

Hesham M. Sallam

Contributed equally to this work with: Mahmoud A. Kora, Hesham M. Sallam, Kerin M. Claeson, Erik R. Seiffert, Mohammed S. Antar

Affiliation Mansoura University Vertebrate Paleontology Center (MUVP), Department of Geology, Faculty of Science, Mansoura University, Mansoura, Egypt

Kerin M. Claeson

Contributed equally to this work with: Mahmoud A. Kora, Hesham M. Sallam, Kerin M. Claeson, Erik R. Seiffert, Mohammed S. Antar

Affiliation Department of Anatomy, Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Erik R. Seiffert

Contributed equally to this work with: Mahmoud A. Kora, Hesham M. Sallam, Kerin M. Claeson, Erik R. Seiffert, Mohammed S. Antar

Affiliation Department of Cell and Neurobiology, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Mohammed S. Antar

Contributed equally to this work with: Mahmoud A. Kora, Hesham M. Sallam, Kerin M. Claeson, Erik R. Seiffert, Mohammed S. Antar

Affiliation Department of Geology and Paleontology, Nature Conservation Sector, Egyptian Environmental Affairs Agency, Cairo, Egypt

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: HMS SE ERS MAK. Data curation: SE HMS KMC ERS. Formal analysis: SE HMS ERS. Investigation: SE HMS ERS KMC MAK MSA. Methodology: SE HMS KMC ERS. Project administration: SE HMS. Resources: SE HMS ERS KMC. Software: SE HMS ERS. Supervision: MAK HMS. Visualization: SE HMS MAK ERS KMC MSA. Writing – original draft: SE HMS. Writing – review & editing: SE HMS ERS KMC MAK MSA.