About the Authors

Jun-Xia Yuan

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

Affiliations Faculty of Materials Science and Chemistry, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, China, State Key Laboratory of Biogeology and Environmental Geology, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, China

Xin-Dong Hou

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

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Biogeology and Environmental Geology, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, China

Axel Barlow

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute for Biochemistry and Biology, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany

Michaela Preick

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Institute for Biochemistry and Biology, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany

Ulrike H. Taron

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Institute for Biochemistry and Biology, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany

Federica Alberti

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Institute for Biochemistry and Biology, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany

Nikolas Basler

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliation Institute for Biochemistry and Biology, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany

Tao Deng

Roles Data curation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Vertebrate Evolution and Human Origins of Chinese Academy of Sciences, IVPP, Beijing, China

Xu-Long Lai

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Resources

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Biogeology and Environmental Geology, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, China

Michael Hofreiter

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

michael.hofreiter@uni-potsdam.de (MH); glsheng@cug.edu.cn (G-LS)

Affiliation Institute for Biochemistry and Biology, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany

Gui-Lian Sheng

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

michael.hofreiter@uni-potsdam.de (MH); glsheng@cug.edu.cn (G-LS)

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Biogeology and Environmental Geology, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.