About the Authors

Jochen Heinrichs

jheinrichs@lmu.de (JH); alexander.schmidt@geo.uni-goettingen.de (ARS)

Affiliation Department of Biology and Geobio-Center, University of Munich (LMU), Munich, Germany

Armin Scheben

Affiliation Department of Biology and Geobio-Center, University of Munich (LMU), Munich, Germany

Gaik Ee Lee

Affiliation Department of Biology and Geobio-Center, University of Munich (LMU), Munich, Germany

Jiří Váňa

Affiliation Department of Botany, Charles University, Praha, Czech Republic

Alfons Schäfer-Verwimp

Affiliation Mittlere Letten 11, Herdwangen-Schönach, Germany

Michael Krings

Affiliation Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Munich (LMU), and Bavarian State Collection for Palaeontology and Geology, Munich, Germany

Alexander R. Schmidt

jheinrichs@lmu.de (JH); alexander.schmidt@geo.uni-goettingen.de (ARS)

Affiliation Department of Geobiology, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JH AS MK ARS. Performed the experiments: JH AS. Analyzed the data: JH AS GEL JV ASV MK ARS. Wrote the paper: JH AS MK ARS.