[meteorite-list] Fungi Helped Destroy Forests During Mass Extinction 250 Million Years Ago

From: Paul H. <oxytropidoceras_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2011 9:46:07 -0500
Message-ID: <20110825104607.09A2F.1488103.imail_at_eastrmwml42>

Mystery Fossils Link Fungi to Ancient Mass Extinction
by Ars Technica, Wired, August 18, 2011,
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/08/permian-triassic-fungus/

Fungi Helped Destroy Forests During Mass Extinction
250 Million Years Ago, RedOrbit, August 8, 2011
http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/2092060/fungi_helped_destroy_forests_during_mass_extinction_250_million_years

The papers are:

Visscher, H., M. A. Sephton, and C. V. Looy, 2011,
Fungi Helped Destroy Forests During Mass Extinction
250 Million Years Ago. Geology. vol. 39; no. 9,
pp. 883-886.
http://geology.geoscienceworld.org/cgi/content/abstract/39/9/883

Huang, C., J. Tong, L. Hinnov and Z. Q. Chen, 2011,
Did the great dying of life take 700 k.y.? Evidence
from global astronomical correlation of the
Permian-Triassic boundary interval. Geology, vol. 39,
no. 8, p. 779-782.
 http://geology.geoscienceworld.org/cgi/content/abstract/39/8/779

Yours,

Paul H.
Received on Thu 25 Aug 2011 10:46:07 AM PDT