About the Authors

Conghui Xiong

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Orogenic Belts and Crustal Evolution, Ministry of Education, Department of Geology, Peking University, Beijing, China

Deming Wang

* E-mail: dmwang@pku.edu.cn (DW); happyking@ibcas.ac.cn (QW)

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Orogenic Belts and Crustal Evolution, Ministry of Education, Department of Geology, Peking University, Beijing, China

Qi Wang

* E-mail: dmwang@pku.edu.cn (DW); happyking@ibcas.ac.cn (QW)

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Michael J. Benton

Affiliation School of Earth Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom

Jinzhuang Xue

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Orogenic Belts and Crustal Evolution, Ministry of Education, Department of Geology, Peking University, Beijing, China

Meicen Meng

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Orogenic Belts and Crustal Evolution, Ministry of Education, Department of Geology, Peking University, Beijing, China

Qi Zhao

Affiliations School of Earth Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom, Key Laboratory of Evolutionary Systematics of Vertebrates, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Jing Zhang

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CX DW QW. Performed the experiments: CX JZ. Analyzed the data: CX. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MJB JX QZ MM. Wrote the paper: CX DW QW MJB JX.