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160-Million-Year-Old Blue-Stain Fungus Fossils Found in China


The discovery of a fossil blue-stain fungus colonizing the insect-infested conifer wood Xenoxylon phyllocladoides in China’s Jurassic Tiaojishan Formation extends the earliest fossil record of blue-stain fungi by approximately 80 million years.

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