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Chunk of petrified wood near El Kurru (Northern Sudan) Petrified log and Welwitschia at Namibia Petrified forest Egypt – petrified forest in Cairo-Suez road, declared a national protectorate by the ministry of environment, also in the area of New Cairo at the Extension of Nasr City , El Qattamiyya, near El Maadi district, and Al Farafra oasis.
Petrified Forest National Park is known for its fossils, especially of fallen trees that lived in the Late Triassic Epoch of the Mesozoic era, about 225-207 million years ago. During this epoch, the region that is now the park was near the equator on the southwestern edge of the supercontinent Pangaea , and its climate was humid and sub ...
Tree remains that have undergone petrifaction, as seen in Petrified Forest National Park. In geology, petrifaction or petrification (from Ancient Greek πέτρα (pétra) 'rock, stone') is the process by which organic material becomes a fossil through the replacement of the original material and the filling of the original pore spaces with minerals.
For many travelers, Petrified Forest may be a stop to somewhere else, like the Grand Canyon, but this national park is special in its own right. ... Animal petroglyphs are carved into rock near ...
Petrified Forest [36] A large saurischian alternatively considered a herrerasaurid or a theropod related to Tawa hallae. Coelophysis [36] C. bauri. New Mexico [37] "Siltstone" [37] C. sp. [38] Arizona [38] Petrified Forest [38] Originally assigned to C. bauri, but likely a different taxon. [38] C. longicollis [36] New Mexico [36] Petrified ...
A petrified forest is a forest in which tree trunks have fossilized as petrified wood. Pages in category "Petrified forests" The following 24 pages are in this category, out of 24 total.
Araucarioxylon arizonicum (alternatively Agathoxylon arizonicum) is an extinct species of conifer that is the state fossil of Arizona. [1] The species is known from massive tree trunks that weather out of the Chinle Formation in desert badlands of northern Arizona and adjacent New Mexico, most notably in the 378.51 square kilometres (93,530 acres) Petrified Forest National Park. [2]
The Upper Petrified Forest National Park member of the Chinle Formation was an ancient floodplain where phytosaurs, rauisuchids, archosaurs, pseudosuchians, and other tetrapods lived and competed with the dinosaur Chindesaurus and its relative Coelophysis for resources.