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Petrified Forest National Park is a national park of the United States in Navajo and Apache counties in northeastern Arizona.Named for its large deposits of petrified wood, the park covers about 346 square miles (900 square kilometers), encompassing semi-desert shrub steppe as well as highly eroded and colorful badlands.
Petrified wood has also been discovered in Dholavira in Kutch, Gujarat, dating back to 187–176 million years. [24] Japan – there is a fossilized forest preserved at Sendai City Tomizawa Site Museum; Indonesia – petrified wood covers several areas in Banten and also in some part of Mount Halimun Salak National Park.
The name of the park gives it away: Most of the fossils you'll see at Petrified Forest are of exquisite petrified wood from the Triassic period over 200 million years ago.
At the time of its NRHP nomination, Lemmon Petrified Wood Park claimed to be the largest petrified wood park in the world. [2] It takes up one 3-acre (1.2 ha) block in the center of downtown Lemmon, South Dakota, and is bounded by Main Avenue (U.S. 12) to the west, 5th Street East to the north, 1st Avenue East to the east, and 6th Avenue East to the south.
The petrified wood specimens in the museum were collected by Frank Walter Bobo, who was born 4 March 1894 in California. He moved to Cle Elum, Kittitas County, Washington. He became a "desert rat" digging petrified logs from the arid hills of Kittitas and Yakima counties.
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Painted Desert Inn is a historic complex in Petrified Forest National Park, in Apache County, eastern Arizona. It is located off Interstate 40 and near the original alignment of historic U.S. Route 66, overlooking the Painted Desert. [3]
Mosley Creek near Grifton, NC is a good area to find Paleocene fossils in the state. Brachiopods and bivalves are common in this formation. trephoceras sloani has also been reported from Mosley Creek. The large cretoxyrhinid shark Palaeocarcharodon orientalis is also known from the state, based on extremely rare teeth from the Beaufort Formation.