About the Authors

Philip D. Gingerich

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

gingeric@umich.edu

Affiliation Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

Ayoub Amane

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Geology and Health and Environment Laboratory, Faculty of Sciences Aïn Chock, Hassan II University of Casablanca, Casablanca, Morocco

Samir Zouhri

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

Affiliation Department of Geology and Health and Environment Laboratory, Faculty of Sciences Aïn Chock, Hassan II University of Casablanca, Casablanca, Morocco

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.