The Virtual Petrified Wood Museum. Dedicated to the Exhibition and Educational Study of Permineralized Plant Material
Home Button
Science Button
Students Button
Fossils Button
Time Button
Tectonics Button
Taxonomy Button
Anatomy Button
Links Button
Contact Button
Bibliography Button
Paleozoic Drop Down Menu
Mesozoic Drop Down Menu
Cenozoic Drop Down Menu
Cenozoic Era: 65.5 Million Years to Present
Oligocene Epoch: 33.9-23 Million Years Ago
Gallery: Louisiana
Petrified Palm Wood
Palmoxylon
Cenozoic; Paleogene; Oligocene
Catahoula Formation
Louisiana, USA
19 cm x 12 cm x 5 cm thick
The Shreveport Collection

The outer edge of this specimen offers great cellular detail and color. Enjoy the close-up images shown below. The next two images were taken with a Canon PowerShot SD770 IS Digital ELPH 10.0 MEGA PIXELS, cropped and resized in Adobe Photoshop CS6. The images were taken in sunlight outside.

Petrified Palm Wood
Palm Wood

The next four images were taken at 150x with a Dino-Lite AD7013 MT 5.0 MP. Images were resized in Adobe Photoshop CS6.

Vascular Bundle
Palm Vascular Bundle
Petrified Palm Wood
Fossil Plam Wood

©Copyright 2008 by Mike Viney| Website Use |