We offer of wide variety of fossils and petrified wood for sale in different price ranges, and from different locations around the world. Fossils in general (and petrified wood is type of fossil) make great gifts – it’s beautiful and will teach you about the history of the earth and biology.
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About Fossils and Petrified Wood
A fossil is a mineralized replacement of a part of a dead animal or plant. The animal or plant as long gone, but the mineralization process leaves behind a partial replacement of it. the color of the mineral depends upon other minerals or present during the fossilization process. Generally speaking hard parts, such as bone, shell or woody parts of an animal or plant is mineralized. it is uncommon for soft parts of an animal to be fossilized. Petrified wood is a popular type of plant fossil.
Collecting fossils, this is very popular pastime. From children to retirees, there is something fascinating about holding a piece of the past in your hand. Holding a fossil in your hand or studying one under magnifying glass fires the imagination.
About Trilobites
Trilobites are fossils of a now-extinct type of aquatic arthropod related to modern day horseshoe crabs. Trilobites date back to the paleozoic era from the Cambrian period through the Ordovician, Silurian, Devonian and Permian periods. They left us beautiful fossils some of which can be complete including their antennae. Ohio and Northern Kentucky are famous for their trilobites and aquatic fossils. In fact, the trilobite is the state fossil of Ohio, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania. These days many trilobite fossils originate in Morocco.
About Orthoceras
Orthoceras is a middle Ordovician marine nautiloid whose shell has been fossilized. Scientifically, the term now refers to a specific cephalod from Sweden and the Baltic States, but in the past and and even now it refers to any of a number of species of extinct cephalopod that grew in a straight conical shape. Many of the Orthoceras fossils now found are from Morocco.
Orthoceras lived during the Ordovician Period but disappeared by the time of the Triassic Period. These quarters range in size from less than an inch to almost 14 feet in length, and like most bottom dwelling sea creatures they eat anything they could overcome. Orthoceras was a fairly common in the seas of its time. It’s closed living relatives are squid, cuttlefish and octopus.
About Mosasaur Teeth
Mosasaurs are a group of families of very large, extinct marine reptile that lived during the late Cretaceous period. During this time, Mosasaur became the Apex predator in the oceans of the time. the largest example of a mosasaur clocks in at nearly 56 feet long. These predatory likely evolved from semi aquatic lizards. These giants ate ammonites, pterosaurs, turtles, marine lizards, sea birds, and possibly even sharks based on fossils found in the gut area of mosasaur skeletons.
The first time the mosasaur skeleton was discovered, was in Holland in the 18th century but today you can buy your own mosasaur fossil. Mosasaur teeth make a very impressive gift for collectors and kids and are very popular. A mosasaur tooth is the perfect gift to inspire your child’s imagination.
About Dinosaur Bones
Everybody knows about dinosaurs from six-year-old boys to 66-year-old men. Everybody also knows about Jurassic Park over the likelihood that you could re-create a dinosaur from material from a fossil is virtually nil. having said that, the next closest cool thing to having your own private dinosaur in the backyard is to have a dinosaur fossil.
What is Petrified Wood
Petrified wood was created when living ancient trees died and rather than decaying normally, were preserved and converted entirely to stone over thousands of years or longer. Petrified wood is also called fossilized wood or agate wood. Petrified wood truly is a fossil and some varieties of petrified wood are unrelated to any currently living species of tree. Paleo-botanists study petrified wood cutting thin slices and investigating the cell structure under microscopes. In many cases the petrification process occurs at the cellular level or even smaller, replacing all of the wood with minerals. Some examples may include the fossilized vascular structure of the original living tree now fossilized.
Petrified wood was created when living ancient trees died and rather than decaying normally, were preserved and converted entirely to stone over thousands of years or longer. Petrified wood is also called fossilized wood or agate wood. Petrified wood truly is a fossil and some varieties of petrified wood are unrelated to any currently living species of tree. Paleo-botanists study petrified wood cutting thin slices and investigating the cell structure under microscopes. In many cases the petrification process occurs at the cellular level or even smaller, replacing all of the wood with minerals. Some examples may include the fossilized vascular structure of the original living tree now fossilized.
Most petrified wood is brown, grey, white or black. But petrified wood can comes in many colors too. Here is a list of elements and related color hues they can create in the quartz and agate in petrified wood:
carbon – black
cobalt – green/blue
chromium – green/blue
copper – green/blue
hematite – red/pink
iron oxides – red, brown, & yellow
manganese – pink/orange
manganese oxides – blackish/yellow
silica – clear/white.
Quartz and agate are the primary minerals that make up petrified wood, but petrified wood may also include other minerals such as opal, jasper and chalcedony and other varieties of minerals which may also be present in varying amounts.
Like all naturally occurring geologic items, some petrified wood is common and others are very rare. Rarity can be related to the location and unique conditions that occurred during the petrification process. Petrified wood can be found in many U.S. states and in countries around the world.
As a company we are lucky to have sources of some very rare items. We are known for offering rare Arizona Green Chromium Petrified wood that comes from near Winslow, Arizona and was created in a single tree-fall. As well we usually have one or more museum quality Arizona Rainbow Petrified Wood slices, slabs, stumps, tables, mantel pieces or specimens in our inventory. Arizona Rainbow Petrified Wood is some of the most colorful petrified wood in the world. Many of the pieces are up to 99.9 percent quartz and can be polished to a mirror finish. Ideal as an art display in your home. Much of the Arizona Rainbow Petrified Wood comes from the Chinle Geologic Rock Formation. This formation dates back to between 200 to 230 million years old. Along with petrified wood, dinosaur bones and the bones of giant crocodile type animals are also found there.
Our inventory is always changing. Be sure to check back to see what new kinds of petrified wood we may have in Inventory. Could be from Madagascar, Turkey, Indonesia or other unusual location.
It is said that petrified wood is a stone of patience and slow steady growth to spiritual transformation. It is also said the petrified wood helps to slowly strengthen the body. Petrified wood plays well with all members of the quartz family.
Each piece of petrified wood is unique and beautiful in its own way and is ideal for use as a display piece indoors or in your garden. Some of our sculptural pieces include display stands, If you are looking for a specific variety, size, shape please contact us. We also can make custom sculptures of this material on a commission basis. We offer a wide variety of types, colors and sizes of petrified wood for sale.
About Arizona Petrified Wood
Arizona Rainbow Petrified Wood is some of the most colorful petrified wood in the world. Many of the pieces are up to 99.9 percent quartz and can be polished to a mirror finish. Ideal as an art display in your home. Much of the Arizona Rainbow Petrified Wood comes from the Chinle Geologic Rock Formation. This formation dates back to between 200 to 230 million years old. Along with petrified wood, dinosaur bones and the bones of giant crocodile type animals are also found there.
About Madagascar Petrified Wood
Petrified wood is also found on the world’s fourth largest island Madagascar located 400 km off the coast of Africa. Much of Madagascar petrified wood originate in the Ambilobe area and dates from the Triassic period, around 220 million years ago. The wood from this area is often Araucaria, a conifer often known as the Monkey Puzzle Tree. This type of petrified wood is often quite colorful.
About Green Chromium Petrified Wood
Petrified wood comes in a variety of colors. One of the rarest and also the most famous of colors is green. Green petrified wood found a variety of locals, including Winslow Arizona, Oregon, and Gokwe, Zimbabwe among others. The green typically comes from the presence of 2% or more chromium in the specimen.
Many of the examples of green chromium petrified wood that we sell comes from a tree fall in the Winslow, Arizona area. the particular seat of green of the specimens is highly desired by collectors. This petrified wood originates from the Chinle Formation, Triassic era – and is approximately 220 – 200 million years old. This specimen was once a conifer tree that paleobotanists have named Araucarioxylon Arizonicum. It is now extinct. Its closest relatives today are the Monkey Puzzle Tree of South America and the Norfolk Island Pine tree.
Paleontologists study fossils of life that existed before humans. Paleobotanists are similar except that their field of study is restricted to plants. You can learn more about fossils and petrified wood at the Cincinnati Museum Center’s new fossil collection exhibit.
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