Egg Petrified Paleosmunda Wood 3 inch Australia Fossil 75 mm #O5

Description

Paleosmunda Petrified Wood Stone Egg
This is wonderful large
Petrified Wood egg
is 3 inches or 75 mm in height by almost 2.25 inches wide.
As is common with this material it has several natural pits and fracture lines.
Lovely and very rare Paleosmunda is a primitive member of the Osmundoidae from the Permian Period (approximately 290 million years old) found in Central Queensland, Australia. It is a fern, species:
Paleosmunda williansoni
.
From the Paleozoic Era, this gemstone is the fossilized stone of Osmunda fern leaves and stems.
The stone formed when a fern died and was buried by sediments. Minerals in the groundwater then permeated the fern, replacing the original organic matter and turning it to stone.
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