About the Authors

Alexander D. Clark

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

adclark@uchicago.edu (ADC); wang_7355@163.com (XW)

Affiliations Committee on Evolutionary Biology, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, Negaunee Integrative Resource Center, Field Museum of Natural History, S Dusable Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Jingmai K. O’Connor

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

Affiliation Negaunee Integrative Resource Center, Field Museum of Natural History, S Dusable Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Xiaoli Wang

Roles Conceptualization

adclark@uchicago.edu (ADC); wang_7355@163.com (XW)

Affiliations School of life Sciences, Lingyi University, Lingyi, China, Shandong Tianyu Museum of Nature, Pingyi, China

Yan Wang

Roles Conceptualization

Affiliations School of life Sciences, Lingyi University, Lingyi, China, Shandong Tianyu Museum of Nature, Pingyi, China, Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Stephen Pruett-Jones

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Xiangyu Zhang

Roles Conceptualization

Affiliations School of life Sciences, Lingyi University, Lingyi, China, Shandong Tianyu Museum of Nature, Pingyi, China

Xing Wang

Roles Conceptualization

Affiliations School of life Sciences, Lingyi University, Lingyi, China, Shandong Tianyu Museum of Nature, Pingyi, China

Xiaoting Zheng

Roles Conceptualization

Affiliations School of life Sciences, Lingyi University, Lingyi, China, Shandong Tianyu Museum of Nature, Pingyi, China

Zhonghe Zhou

Roles Conceptualization

Affiliations Key Laboratory of Vertebrate Evolution and Human Origins of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Beijing, China, Chinese Academy of Sciences Center for Excellence in Life and Paleoenvironment, Beijing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.