What kind of wood was it, before it was petrified?

Sylvia Sanders | Mar 12, 2018 | Category: National park

Petrified Forest National Park - All questions

Address: Arizona, USA

ron baughman | Mar 13, 2018

prehistoric trees like redwood and ginkgo but most likely the trees you see that are petrified are millions of years old and are extinct.

Vicki Darnell | Mar 13, 2018

Fallen trees in the Petrified Forrest are trees that lived in the Late TriassicPeriod, about 225 million years ago. Check out said period on Google or Wikipedia for more specific details.

Sean Purdy | Mar 13, 2018

Araucarioxylon arizonicum (AZ's state fossil)

chonk_zilla official | Mar 13, 2019

None of the logs at this park are from carbon trees. They are from ancient silicon trees that have been felled and left scattered in the plain.

Paul Tanton | Mar 12, 2020

Pullisilvaxylon arizonicum, Pullisilvaxylon daughertii, and Chinleoxylon knowltonii.

blactrk | Mar 12, 2020

Mostly conifers.

Charles Justice | Mar 13, 2018

Juniper is one for sure. Ask Google

Robert Johnson | Mar 13, 2018

I don't know that anyone could know

Kat | Aug 20, 2021

According to their guide book it was a time before flowers. Coniferous trees, tree ferns and gingko. They are unique to this area, have been given the scientific name ARAUCARIOXYLON ARIZONICUM.

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