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Lichens Were Already Widespread in Early Devonian, Enigmatic Fossils from Brazil Show


Paleontologists have identified the 410-million-year-old specimens of Spongiophyton nanum from the Ponta Grossa Formation in the Paraná Basin of Brazil as one of the oldest and most widespread lichens from the fossil record.

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