Mysterious fruit shown to be the oldest known fossils of the Frankincense and Myrrh family

Gainesville FL (SPX) Dec 21, 2023

Early in the 1970s, a paleontologist working on the outskirts of an Indian village found small, bead-like fossils embedded in the gray chert dotting the surrounding fields. The site was notorious for turning up plant fossils that were difficult to identify, including the fruit of an extinct species resignedly given the name "Enigmocarpon." The new fossils proved just as frustratingly intractable