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The Jaramillo Petrified Forest National Park is a protected area of petrified forest located in the Deseado Department, in the northeast of Santa Cruz Province, Argentina. Formerly part of the site was a natural monument, established in 1954 and known as the Petrified Forest Natural Monument , covering about 13,700 hectares (34,000 acres).
The Petrified Forest, 30 km (19 mi) south of Sarmiento, Argentina, is a provincial natural monument. It a forest from the Cenozoic era, the petrified wood is of primitive conifers and palm trees. [ 1 ]
Araucaria mirabilis is an extinct species of coniferous tree from Patagonia, Argentina.It belongs to the genus Araucaria.. A. mirabilis are known from large amounts of very well preserved silicified wood and cones from the Cerro Cuadrado Petrified Forest, including tree trunks that reached 100 m (330 ft) in height in life.
The Patagonian Desert, also known as the Patagonian Steppe, is the largest desert in Argentina and is the eighth-largest desert in the world by area, occupying approx. 673,000 square kilometres (260,000 mi 2).
Argentina – the Sarmiento Petrified Forest and Jaramillo Petrified Forest in Santa Cruz Province in the Argentine Patagonia have many trees that measure more than 3 m (9.8 ft) in diameter and 30 m (98 ft) long. [38] Brazil: in the geopark of Paleorrota, there is a vast area with petrified trees. [39] In the Heritage forest
Thus, Argentina was the third country in the Americas, after United States and Canada to establish a national parks system. [2] The National Park Police Force was born, enforcing the new laws preventing tree-felling and hunting.
Araucarites sanctaecrucis is an extinct coniferous tree from Patagonia, Argentina. Its exact affinities are unknown and it is currently assigned to the form genus Araucarites of the family Araucariaceae. A. sanctaecrucis are known from petrified fossils of branches, foliage, and cones from the Cerro Cuadrado Petrified Forest.
Petrified cone of Araucaria mirabilis from Patagonia, Argentina dating from the Jurassic Period (approx. 157 mya) Genetic studies indicate that the extant members of the genus can be subdivided into two large clades – the first consisting of the sections Araucaria, Bunya, and Intermedia; and the second of the strongly monophyletic section ...