Correction to: Nature https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-019-1131-5 Published online 24 April 2019; corrected online 28 June 2019

In this Article, Tehnuka Ilanko should have been listed as an author, with the affiliation: Department of Geography, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK. She contributed to the gas compositional and C isotope analyses (see ‘Author contributions’). The original Article has been corrected online.