About the Authors

Dean R. Lomax

dean.lomax@manchester.ac.uk

Affiliation School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, The University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom

Peter L. Falkingham

Affiliation Liverpool John Moores University, School of Natural Sciences and Psychology, Liverpool, United Kingdom

Günter Schweigert

Affiliation Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde, Stuttgart, Germany

Alejandro P. Jiménez

Affiliation CosmoCaixa Museum, Barcelona, Spain

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: DRL. Data curation: DRL PLF. Formal analysis: DRL PLF. Funding acquisition: DRL. Investigation: DRL. Methodology: DRL PLF. Project administration: DRL. Software: PLF. Supervision: DRL APJ. Validation: DRL PLF GS APJ. Visualization: DRL PLF GS APJ. Writing – original draft: DRL. Writing – review & editing: DRL PLF GS APJ.