Correction to: Nature https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-3003-4Published online 09 December 2020

In Fig. 2 of this Article, owing to an error during the production process, ‘C’ (for Carboniferous) was swapped with ‘Cam.’ (for Cambrian) in the timeline at the top of the figure. The original Article has been corrected online.