Tag: 390 million years old

Tag: 390 million years old

Oldest forest on earth discovered in England

In southwest England, fossil specimens of a forest have been discovered that are 390 million years old. They were found in the Hangman Sandstone Formation in southwest England. The forest is made up mostly of cladoxylopsids, a close relation to ferns and horsetails. They look kind of like palms but are not related to them.