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• 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

  * E-mail: 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

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2007-3616

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• 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

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• Kayona Karunakumar,

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

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

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• 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

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