About the Authors

Bin Bai

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

baibin@ivpp.ac.cn (BB); jmeng@amnh.org (JM); wangyuanqing@ivpp.ac.cn (YQW)

Affiliations Key Laboratory of Vertebrate Evolution and Human Origins of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, CAS Center for Excellence in Life and Paleoenviroment, Beijing, China, State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, China

Jin Meng

Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

baibin@ivpp.ac.cn (BB); jmeng@amnh.org (JM); wangyuanqing@ivpp.ac.cn (YQW)

Affiliations Key Laboratory of Vertebrate Evolution and Human Origins of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, Division of Paleontology, American Museum of Natural History, New York, United States of America, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Graduate Center, City University of New York, New York, United States of America

Fang-Yuan Mao

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Resources, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Key Laboratory of Vertebrate Evolution and Human Origins of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, CAS Center for Excellence in Life and Paleoenviroment, Beijing, China, Division of Paleontology, American Museum of Natural History, New York, United States of America

Zhao-Qun Zhang

Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources

Affiliations Key Laboratory of Vertebrate Evolution and Human Origins of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, CAS Center for Excellence in Life and Paleoenviroment, Beijing, China, College of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Yuan-Qing Wang

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

baibin@ivpp.ac.cn (BB); jmeng@amnh.org (JM); wangyuanqing@ivpp.ac.cn (YQW)

Affiliations Key Laboratory of Vertebrate Evolution and Human Origins of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, CAS Center for Excellence in Life and Paleoenviroment, Beijing, China, College of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.