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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

11 cm x 9 cm x 14 cm tall
The Shreveport Collection
Palm Wood

The specimen above is cut and polished in both the transverse and longitudinal directions. Close-up images of the vascular bundles in both sections are shown below. The next three 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.

Palm Wood Longitudinal Section
Palm Longitudinal Section

The next two images were taken at with a Dino-Lite AD7013 MT 5.0 MP. Images were resized in Adobe Photoshop CS6. The first image is at 100x, the second at 150x.

Palmoxylon Vascular Bundle
Palmoxylon

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