About the Authors

Maria Virgínia Alves Martins

Contributed equally to this work with: Maria Virgínia Alves Martins, Johann Hohenegger, Fabrizio Frontalini

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

virginia.martins@ua.pt

Affiliations Departamento de Estratigrafia e Paleontologia, Faculdade de Geologia, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Departamento Geociências, GeoBioTec, Universidade de Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal

Johann Hohenegger

Contributed equally to this work with: Maria Virgínia Alves Martins, Johann Hohenegger, Fabrizio Frontalini

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institut für Paläontologie, Universität Wien, Wien, Austria

Fabrizio Frontalini

Contributed equally to this work with: Maria Virgínia Alves Martins, Johann Hohenegger, Fabrizio Frontalini

Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Dipartimento di Scienze Pure e Applicate (DiSPeA), Università degli Studi di Urbino "Carlo Bo", Urbino, Italy

João Manuel Alveirinho Dias

Roles Supervision, Validation

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation CIMA, Centro de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental, Universidade do Algarve, Campus de Gambelas, Faro, Portugal

Mauro Cesar Geraldes

Roles Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Departamento de Estratigrafia e Paleontologia, Faculdade de Geologia, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Fernando Rocha

Roles Funding acquisition, Validation

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Departamento Geociências, GeoBioTec, Universidade de Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.