Frederick Mullison is Ted Daeschler’s fossil preparator at the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia. He has twelve years of experience working with Devonian-aged fossils that Ted and Neil have collected under their Devonian Research Project. In addition to preparation work, he is a skilled photographer and model-maker. Fred prepared specimens NUFV 108 and 110 (the smaller specimens one of which is the holotype) for this project.

Kalliopi Monoyios has been working as a scientific illustrator in Neil Shubin’s Lab since 2002. She has a bachelor’s degree in Geology from Princeton University and 10 years of wilderness experience in the Arctic thanks to her Canadian family members who are avid whitewater canoeists. Kapi illustrated most of the material from this project as well as the cover of the issue of Nature in which these discoveries are detailed. She also designed this website.

Robert Masek has 17 years of experience preparing fossils for the Field Museum of Natural History and the University of Chicago. He works mainly on dinosaur fossils, but occasionally delves deeper in time to work on Devonian fossils. In his spare time, Bob collects Indiana’s famous Mazon Creek fossils and has donated many of them to local schools. Bob prepared specimen NUFV 109 (the big specimen) for this project.