Fossilized trees dating back 390 million years are world’s oldest

Fossilized trees dating back 390 million years are world’s oldest


“It was amazing to see them so near to home. But the most revealing insight comes from seeing, for the first time, these trees in the positions where they grew,” he said in the release.

“It is our first opportunity to look directly at the ecology of this earliest type of forest, to interpret the environment in which Calamophyton trees were growing, and to evaluate their impact on the sedimentary system.”

None of this would have been possible without a huge stroke of luck, said Davies.

“These were fortuitous findings,” he said, explaining that the team were in the area to investigate its general geology and had sat down for lunch in a field when they spotted the fossils.

“We were surprised to find the forest because it’s a part of the world that has been looked at quite extensively and no one’s ever found these things,” he said.

Henry Garcia [HG]

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Thanks for sharing, Dr. Gehrig Schultz 👍

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