About the Authors

Alexander Averianov

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

dzharakuduk@mail.ru

Affiliations Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Saint Petersburg, Russia, Institute of Earth Sciences, Saint Petersburg State University, Saint Petersburg, Russia, Institute of Geology and Petroleum Technology, Kazan Federal University, Kazan, Russia

Thomas Martin

Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Steinmann-Institut für Geologie, Mineralogie und Paläontologie, Universität Bonn, Bonn, Germany

Alexey Lopatin

Roles Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Borissiak Paleontological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

Pavel Skutschas

Roles Data curation, Investigation

Affiliation Vertebrate Zoology Department, Saint Petersburg State University, Saint Petersburg, Russia

Rico Schellhorn

Roles Data curation, Investigation

Affiliation Steinmann-Institut für Geologie, Mineralogie und Paläontologie, Universität Bonn, Bonn, Germany

Petr Kolosov

Roles Data curation, Investigation

Affiliation Institute of Diamond and Precious Metals Geology, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Yakutsk, Russia

Dmitry Vitenko

Roles Data curation, Investigation

Affiliation Vertebrate Zoology Department, Saint Petersburg State University, Saint Petersburg, Russia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.