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Petrified Wood Round Polished Rock Circle Cliffs, Utah
This lovely piece of Petrified Wood, Schilderia, is a full "round" (bark all the way around), slabbed and polished on one side, natural rough on the edges.
The Petrified Wood round is 3.9 inches long by 3.25 inches wide and 9 mm at its thickest.
This one is lined with felt on the back.
The second-largest fossil forest of its age in North America, if not the entire world, is in the Circle Cliffs portion of Grand Staircase–Escalante National Monument in southern Utah. Commonly called the Wolverine Petrified Forest, this area’s official name is Wolverine Petrified Wood Natural Environmental Area.
The fossil wood preserved in the Wolverine Petrified Wood Natural Area originates from the Late Triassic Chinle Formation.
Wolverine Petrified Wood is typically black.
Most of the petrified wood appears to represent Araucarioxylon, a species of petrified wood common throughout the Chinle Formation at many localities in Utah, Arizona, and New Mexico, but a small amount of a second species of wood called Woodworthia is also present in Wolverine Petrified Forest.
Schilderia is much rarer and only a little bit has been found in this area. Schilderia is a distinctive gymnosperm genus found in Triassic aged deposits. Schilderia was a large tree with a solid woody cylinder. This genus can be easily recognized by its large rays, which are clearly visible to the naked eye.
This piece was from an old collection and was self collected in the 40's or 50's, prior to the establishment of the park in 1976.
