About the Authors

Alexander Averianov

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

dzharakuduk@mail.ru

Affiliation Department of Theriology, Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia

Hans-Dieter Sues

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

Affiliation Department of Paleobiology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.