About the Authors

Conrad C. Labandeira

Affiliations Department of Paleobiology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC 20013–7012, United States of America, Department of Entomology, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, United States of America, College of Life Sciences, Capital Normal University, Beijing, 100048, China

Evelyn Kustatscher

Affiliations Museum of Nature South Tyrol, Bindergasse 1, 39100 Bozen/Bolzano, Italy, Department für Geo- und Umweltwissenschaften, Paläontologie und Geobiologie, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität and Bayerische Staatssammlung für Paläontologie und Geobiologie, Richard-Wagner-Straße 10, 80333 München, Germany

Torsten Wappler

twappler@uni-bonn.de

Affiliation Steinmann Institute, University of Bonn, Nussallee 8, 53115 Bonn, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: CL EK TW. Data curation: CL EK TW. Formal analysis: CL TW. Funding acquisition: EK TW. Investigation: CL EK TW. Methodology: CL EK TW. Project administration: EK. Resources: CL EK TW. Validation: CL EK. Writing – original draft: CL EK TW. Writing – review & editing: CL EK TW.