The specific name honours preparator and collector Mark Goodwin. Jason Bourque is the current vertebrate paleontology preparator and studies fossil and living turtles. The specific name honors the American Museum of Natural History preparator Adam Hermann. The department includes curators, collection managers, and a mammal and bird preparator. The bones were subsequently partially uncovered by Owen's preparator, the mason Caleb Barlow. The specific epithet honours discoverer and preparator Marcelo Pablo Isasi. The specific name honours Randy Johnson as preparator. He worked as a preparator at the newly formed Metro Pictures Gallery in 1981. At the American Museum, preparation of the skin impressions was completed by preparator Otto Falkenbach. During the extraction of the fossils, the fossil preparator accidentally broke one of the skulls. William J. Sanders is a vertebrate paleontologist and research scientist/preparator at the University of Michigan. Li Yutong, senior preparator of the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP). Olive is now the exhibition designer and preparator at The Warehouse Gallery. He was a painter, expedition collector and preparator at the Hofkabinet in Vienna, Austria.