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Fossilized Tree Stumps, Newtown Creek

Wattieza (division Pteridophyta, class Cladoxylopsida) These fossils are stumps of some of the oldest trees known to exist. They are 385 million-year-old fossils of trees that grew in the Gilboa...

Wattieza (division Pteridophyta, class Cladoxylopsida)

These fossils are stumps of some of the oldest trees known to exist. They are 385 million-year-old fossils of trees that grew in the Gilboa forest, a fossilized forest found during excavation for the Gilboa Dam at the DEP Schoharie Reservoir, southwest of Albany, NY.

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