About the Authors

Andrew J. Fraass

Contributed equally to this work with: Andrew J. Fraass, Thomas J. Bailey

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

andyfraass@uvic.ca

‡ These authors are joint senior authors on this work.

Affiliations School of Earth and Ocean Sciences University of Victoria, British Columbia, Victoria, Canada, School of Earth Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, England,, Invertebrate Paleontology, The Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Thomas J. Bailey

Contributed equally to this work with: Andrew J. Fraass, Thomas J. Bailey

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors are joint senior authors on this work.

Affiliations Department of Physics, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, Support Our Science, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Kayona Karunakumar

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

Affiliation Department of Physics, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Andrea E. Wishart

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

Affiliations Support Our Science, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, Department of Biology, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada

Competing Interests

I have read the journal's policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: Andrew Fraass is a tenure track professor who receives funding from Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC Canada, RGPIN-2022-03305 and DGECR-2022-00141) and has received funding from National Science Foundation, United States of America. Thomas Bailey is a graduate student who receives funding indirectly from NSERC. Thomas Bailey, Kayona Karunakumar, and Andrea Wishart are involved with Support Our Science, a not for profit grassroots advocacy group for graduate student and postdoctoral funding. They do not receive any financial compensation from this organization. This is discussed in the positionality statements of the paper. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.