About the Authors

Vincent Dupret

Contributed equally to this work with: Vincent Dupret, Sophie Sanchez, Daniel Goujet, Per Erik Ahlberg

vincent.dupret@anu.edu.au (VD); Per.Ahlberg@ebc.uu.se (PEA)

Current address: Department of Applied Mathematics, Research School Of Physics and Engineering, The Australian National University, Canberra ACT, Australia

Affiliation Science for Life Laboratory and Uppsala University, Department of Organismal Biology, Subdepartment of Evolution and Development, Norbyvägen, SE Uppsala, Sweden

Sophie Sanchez

Contributed equally to this work with: Vincent Dupret, Sophie Sanchez, Daniel Goujet, Per Erik Ahlberg

Affiliations Science for Life Laboratory and Uppsala University, Department of Organismal Biology, Subdepartment of Evolution and Development, Norbyvägen, SE Uppsala, Sweden, European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, Grenoble, France

Daniel Goujet

Contributed equally to this work with: Vincent Dupret, Sophie Sanchez, Daniel Goujet, Per Erik Ahlberg

Affiliation Centre de Recherche sur la Paléobiodiversité et les Paléoenvironnements (CR2P, UMR 7207), Sorbonne Universités, MNHN, CNRS, UPMC-Paris 6, Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France

Per Erik Ahlberg

Contributed equally to this work with: Vincent Dupret, Sophie Sanchez, Daniel Goujet, Per Erik Ahlberg

vincent.dupret@anu.edu.au (VD); Per.Ahlberg@ebc.uu.se (PEA)

Affiliation Science for Life Laboratory and Uppsala University, Department of Organismal Biology, Subdepartment of Evolution and Development, Norbyvägen, SE Uppsala, Sweden

Competing Interests

Daniel Goujet was employed by Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle during part of the study. The commercial affiliation (MNHN) of DG does not alter the authors' adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: VD PEA. Formal analysis: VD DG PEA. Funding acquisition: PEA. Investigation: VD SS DG PEA. Methodology: VD SS PEA. Project administration: VD PEA. Resources: VD SS DG PEA. Supervision: VD PEA. Validation: VD SS DG PEA. Visualization: VD SS PEA. Writing – original draft: VD SS DG PEA. Writing – review & editing: VD SS DG PEA.