About the Authors

Deepak Choudhary

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

deepakc015.dc@gmail.com

Affiliations Department of Geosciences, Baylor University, Waco, Texas, United States of America, Department of Geology, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India

Christopher C. Gilbert

Contributed equally to this work with: Christopher C. Gilbert, Christopher J. Campisano, Daniel J. Peppe, Rajeev Patnaik

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Anthropology, Hunter College of the City University of New York, New York, New York, United States of America, PhD Program in Anthropology, The Graduate Center of the City University of New York, New York, New York, United States of America, Division of Paleontology, American Museum of Natural History, New York, New York, United States of America, New York Consortium in Evolutionary Primatology, New York, New York, United States of America

Christopher J. Campisano

Contributed equally to this work with: Christopher C. Gilbert, Christopher J. Campisano, Daniel J. Peppe, Rajeev Patnaik

Roles Data curation, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Institute of Human Origins, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, United States of America, School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, United States of America

Daniel J. Peppe

Contributed equally to this work with: Christopher C. Gilbert, Christopher J. Campisano, Daniel J. Peppe, Rajeev Patnaik

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Geosciences, Baylor University, Waco, Texas, United States of America

Mohammad Arif

Roles Formal analysis, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Palaeomagnetism Lab, Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeosciences, Lucknow, India

Sarvendra Pratap Singh

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Palaeomagnetism Lab, Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeosciences, Lucknow, India

Kahsay Tesfay

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Geosciences, Baylor University, Waco, Texas, United States of America

Biren A. Patel

Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Division of Integrative Anatomical Sciences, Department of Medical Education, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Human and Evolutionary Biology Section, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Wasim Abass Wazir

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Geology, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India

Rohit Kumar

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Geology, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India

Binita Phartiyal

Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Palaeomagnetism Lab, Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeosciences, Lucknow, India

Ningthoujam Premjit Singh

Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology, Dehradun, India

Kongrailatpam Milankumar Sharma

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Geology, Central University of South Bihar, Gaya, Bihar, India

Rajeev Patnaik

Contributed equally to this work with: Christopher C. Gilbert, Christopher J. Campisano, Daniel J. Peppe, Rajeev Patnaik

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Geology, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.