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

Jun 5, 2025 - 15:15
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160-Million-Year-Old Blue-Stain Fungus Fossils Found in China
Blue-stain fungus in wood tissues of Xenoxylon phyllocladoides from the Jurassic of western Liaoning province, China. Image credit: Tian et al., doi: 10.1093/nsr/nwaf160.

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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