About the Authors

Torsten Wappler

twappler@uni-bonn.de (TW); sonja.wedmann@senckenberg.de (SW)

Affiliations Senckenberg Forschungsinstitut und Naturmuseum Frankfurt, Forschungsstation Grube Messel, Messel, Germany, Senckenberg Biodiversität und Klima Forschungszentrum (BiK-F), Frankfurt am Main, Germany, Steinmann-Institut für Geologie, Mineralogie, Paläontologie, Universität Bonn, Bonn, Germany

Eric Guilbert

Affiliation Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Département de Systématique et Evolution, UMR 7205 CNRS, CP50, Paris, France

Conrad C. Labandeira

Affiliations Department of Paleobiology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, United States of America, Department of Entomology and Behavior, Ecology, Evolution and Systematics Program, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States of America, College of Life Sciences, Capital Normal University, Beijing, China

Thomas Hörnschemeyer

Affiliation Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Johann-Friedrich-Blumenbach-Institut für Zoologie & Anthropologie, Abteilung Morphologie & Systematik mit Zoologischem Museum, Göttingen, Germany

Sonja Wedmann

twappler@uni-bonn.de (TW); sonja.wedmann@senckenberg.de (SW)

Affiliations Senckenberg Forschungsinstitut und Naturmuseum Frankfurt, Forschungsstation Grube Messel, Messel, Germany, Senckenberg Biodiversität und Klima Forschungszentrum (BiK-F), Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TW SW. Performed the experiments: TW EG CCL TH SW. Analyzed the data: TW EG CCL TH SW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: EG CCL TH. Wrote the paper: TW EG CCL SW.