About the Authors

Christine Strullu-Derrien

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

c.strullu-derrien@nhm.ac.uk

Affiliations Institut Systámatique Evolution Biodiversitá, Musáum national d’Histoire naturelle, CNRS, Sorbonne Universitá, Paris, France, Department of Earth Sciences, The Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom

Marc Gèze

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Centre de microscopie et d’imagerie numérique du muséum, Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France, Département AVIV, UMR 7245 MCAM Molécules de communication et Adaptation des Micro-organismes, Musáum national d’Histoire naturelle, CNRS, Sorbonne Universitá, Paris, France

Alan R. T. Spencer

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Earth Sciences, The Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom, Department of Earth Science & Engineering, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Dario De Franceschi

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centre de Recherche en Paléontologie Paris, Musáum national d’Histoire naturelle, CNRS, Sorbonne Université, Paris, France

Paul Kenrick

Roles Investigation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Earth Sciences, The Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom

Marc-André Selosse

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Institut Systámatique Evolution Biodiversitá, Musáum national d’Histoire naturelle, CNRS, Sorbonne Universitá, Paris, France, Department of Plant Taxonomy and Nature Conservation, University of Gdańsk, Gdańsk, Poland

Andrew H. Knoll

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

Affiliation Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.