About the Authors

Pascal Neige

pascal.neige@u-bourgogne.fr

Affiliation Univ. Bourgogne Franche-Comté, CNRS, Biogéosciences, 6 bd Gabriel, 21000, Dijon, France

Hervé Lapierre

Affiliation Département Histoire de la Terre, (MNHN, CNRS, UPMC-Paris6), Paris, France

Didier Merle

Affiliation Département Histoire de la Terre, Sorbonne Universités (CR2P—MNHN, CNRS, UPMC-Paris6), Paris, France

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PN HL DM. Performed the experiments: PN HL DM. Analyzed the data: PN HL DM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PN HL DM. Wrote the paper: PN HL DM. Found the fossil specimens: HL. Analyzed the stratigraphical and paleoenvironmental context: DM HL. Compiled fossil statolith data: PN.