[Rockhounds] How Did Life Arrive on Land?

[Paul]

How Did Life Arrive on Land? A Billion-Year-Old Fungus May Hold Clues
A cache of microscopic fossils from the Arctic hints that fungi reached
land long before plants. Carl Zimmer, New York Times, May 22, 2019
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/22/science/fungi-fossils-plants.html

The paper is:

Loron, C.C., Rainbird, R.H., Turner, E.C., Greenman, J.W. and Javaux, E.J.,
2019. Organic-walled microfossils from the late Mesoproterozoic to
early Neoproterozoic lower Shaler Supergroup (Arctic Canada):
Diversity and biostratigraphic significance. Precambrian Research,
321, pp.349-374.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/329839018_Organic-walled_microfossils_from_the_late_Mesoproterozoic_to_early_Neoproterozoic_lower_Shaler_Supergroup_Arctic_Canada_Diversity_and_biostratigraphic_significance
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Corentin_Loron
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/J_Wilder_Greenman
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S030192681830216X

Yours,

Paul H.