Image: The Gilboa Fossils from the Wattieza tree located in Gilboa, New York. These are the finds made in the 1920's in a quarry after a flood in Gilboa.

Sources:

• http://www.nyc.gov/html/dep/html/press/00-49pr.html archive copy at the Wayback Machine [New York City Department of Environmental Protection.]
• BARTHOLOMEW, Alexander J. (2003-03-29) THE MIDDLE DEVONIAN (GIVETIAN) GILBOA FOREST: SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHIC DETERMINATION OF THE WORLD'S OLDEST FOSSIL FOREST DEPOSIT, SCHOHARIE CO., NEW YORK STATE^[1]

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