About the Authors

Federico Fanti

federico.fanti@unibo.it

‡ FF and AC are joint senior authors on this work.

Affiliations Dipartimento di Scienze Biologiche, Geologiche e Ambientali, Alma Mater Studiorum, Università di Bologna, Bologna, Italy, Museo Geologico Giovanni Capellini, Alma Mater Studiorum, Università di Bologna, Bologna, Italy

Andrea Cau

‡ FF and AC are joint senior authors on this work.

Affiliations Dipartimento di Scienze Biologiche, Geologiche e Ambientali, Alma Mater Studiorum, Università di Bologna, Bologna, Italy, Museo Geologico Giovanni Capellini, Alma Mater Studiorum, Università di Bologna, Bologna, Italy

Luigi Cantelli

Contributed equally to this work with: Luigi Cantelli, Mohsen Hassine, Marco Auditore

Affiliation Dipartimento di Scienze Biologiche, Geologiche e Ambientali, Alma Mater Studiorum, Università di Bologna, Bologna, Italy

Mohsen Hassine

Contributed equally to this work with: Luigi Cantelli, Mohsen Hassine, Marco Auditore

Affiliation Office National Des Mines, Service Patrimoine Géologique, Tunis, Tunisia

Marco Auditore

Contributed equally to this work with: Luigi Cantelli, Mohsen Hassine, Marco Auditore

Affiliation Museo Paleontologico Cittadino, Monfalcone, Gorizia, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AC LC. Performed the experiments: AC LC. Analyzed the data: AC FF LC MA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AC LC FF. Wrote the paper: AC FF LC MA MH.