About the Authors

Elis Newham

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

elis.newham@googlemail.com (EN); p.schneider@soton.ac.uk (PS)

Affiliations Bioengineering Science Research Group, Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom, School of Engineering and Materials Science, Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom

Pamela G. Gill

Roles Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations School of Earth Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom, Department of Earth Sciences, Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom

Kate Robson Brown

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

Affiliations Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom, Department of Anthropology and Archaeology, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom

Neil J. Gostling

Roles Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Environmental and Life Sciences, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom

Ian J. Corfe

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

Affiliations Developmental Biology Program, Institute of Biotechnology, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland, Geological Survey of Finland, Espoo, Finland

Philipp Schneider

Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

elis.newham@googlemail.com (EN); p.schneider@soton.ac.uk (PS)

Affiliations Bioengineering Science Research Group, Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom, High-Performance Vision Systems, Center for Vision, Automation & Control, AIT Austrian Institute of Technology, Vienna, Austria

Competing Interests

The authors have read the journal’s policy and have the following competing interests: The authors received material support in the form of travel to the Swiss Light Source Synchrotron for our experiment, consisting of airfare, guesthouse reservations, and external hard drives. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. Travel to the Swiss Light Source Synchrotron for our experiment, consisting of airfare, guesthouse reservations, and external hard drives.