About the Authors

Andrew T. McDonald

andrew.mcdonald@slsc.org

Affiliation Saint Louis Science Center, Saint Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Terry A. Gates

Affiliations Department of Biological Sciences, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America, North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America

Lindsay E. Zanno

Affiliations Department of Biological Sciences, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America, North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America

Peter J. Makovicky

Affiliation Section of Earth Sciences, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: ATM TAG LEZ PJM. Data curation: ATM TAG LEZ PJM. Formal analysis: ATM TAG LEZ PJM. Investigation: ATM TAG LEZ PJM. Methodology: ATM TAG LEZ PJM. Project administration: ATM TAG LEZ PJM. Resources: ATM TAG LEZ PJM. Supervision: ATM TAG LEZ PJM. Validation: ATM TAG LEZ PJM. Visualization: ATM TAG LEZ PJM. Writing – original draft: ATM TAG LEZ PJM. Writing – review & editing: ATM TAG LEZ PJM.