[Rockhounds] Cryptic terrestrial fossils of the Ediacaran Period. Did they bail us out of an ice age?

[Paul]

The original press release is:

Virginia Tech researchers discover 635 million-year-old

fungi-like microfossil that bailed us out of an ice age

https://vtnews.vt.edu/articles/2021/01/fralinlifesci-oldest-fungi-like-microfossil-bailed-us-out-of-an-ice-age.html

The open access paper with downloadable PDF is:

Gan, T., Luo, T., Pang, K., Zhou, C., Zhou, G., Wan, B.,

Li, G., Yi, Q., Czaja, A.D. and Xiao, S., 2021. Cryptic

terrestrial fungus-like fossils of the early Ediacaran Period.

Nature Communications, 12(1), pp.1-12.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-20975-1

Supplementary information

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-20975-1#Sec15

Supplementary Information for Cryptic terrestrial

fungus-like fossils of the early Ediacaran Period

https://static-content.springer.com/esm/art%3A10.1038%2Fs41467-021-20975-1/MediaObjects/41467_2021_20975_MOESM1_ESM.pdf

Peer-Review files for paper

https://static-content.springer.com/esm/art%3A10.1038%2Fs41467-021-20975-1/MediaObjects/41467_2021_20975_MOESM2_ESM.pdf

Yours,

Paul H.