About the Authors

Plamen S. Andreev

Contributed equally to this work with: Plamen S. Andreev, Wenjin Zhao

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

zhumin@ivpp.ac.cn(MZ); andreev@ivpp.ac.cn(PSA)

Affiliations Research Center of Natural History and Culture, Qujing Normal University, Qujing, Yunnan Province, China, Key CAS Laboratory of Vertebrate Evolution and Human Origins, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Wenjin Zhao

Contributed equally to this work with: Plamen S. Andreev, Wenjin Zhao

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

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

Nian-Zhong Wang

† Deceased.

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Key CAS Laboratory of Vertebrate Evolution and Human Origins, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Moya M. Smith

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Earth Sciences, Natural History Museum London, London, England, United Kingdom, Faculty of Dentistry, Oral & Craniofacial Sciences, KCL, London, England, United Kingdom

Qiang Li

Roles Funding acquisition, Visualization

Affiliation Research Center of Natural History and Culture, Qujing Normal University, Qujing, Yunnan Province, China

Xindong Cui

Roles Investigation, Software, Visualization

Affiliations Key CAS Laboratory of Vertebrate Evolution and Human Origins, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Min Zhu

Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

zhumin@ivpp.ac.cn(MZ); andreev@ivpp.ac.cn(PSA)

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

Ivan J. Sansom

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

Affiliation School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, England, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.