Correction to: Journal of Palaeogeography (2020) 9:11

https://doi.org/10.1186/s42501-020-00059-9

Since the publication of our article (Zhang and Dong 2020) it has been brought to our attention that in the legend to Figure 9 we omitted to state that this figure is modified from Figure 5 of Macdonald et al. (2011) with permission of the Geological Society of London. We apologize to Macdonald et al. and to readers for any inconvenience caused.