About the Authors

Laura Domingo

laudomingo@gmail.com

Affiliation Earth and Planetary Sciences Department. University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California, United States of America

Paul L. Koch

Affiliation Earth and Planetary Sciences Department. University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California, United States of America

Manuel Hernández Fernández

Affiliations Departamento de Paleontología, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain, Departamento de Cambio Medioambiental, Instituto de Geociencias (UCM, CSIC), Madrid, Spain

David L. Fox

Affiliation Department of Earth Sciences. University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

M. Soledad Domingo

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

María Teresa Alberdi

Affiliation Departamento de Paleobiología, Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales-CSIC, Madrid, Spain

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LD PLK. Performed the experiments: LD. Analyzed the data: LD PLK MHF DLF MSD MTA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LD PLK DLF MSD. Wrote the paper: LD PLK MHF DLF MSD MTA.