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This is one of the things I received from a rockhound club member who was getting rid of stuff, which I showed off here: She did not recall anything about this piece, and I think the 'petrified fern' label is wrong but I was given nothing else to go on to track down its true nature or location of origin. Does anyone recognize it? It doesn't seem to have the rings that you would see in pet wood except for the Chinle Fm stuff from AZ which is so altered that often the grain is invisible. But the broken faces exhibit some odd little flat bits in cross-section, and there's that interesting cross-hatched texture that I hope give some clues (and the orangish color is similar to Chinle also..?) She has been all across the US and Canada, and Britain as well (originally from England) so that doesn't allow me to narrow it down much. The collection also included some stuff from Ginkgo Petrified Forest in Washington, and Eastern Oregon, and of course pet wood can come from many places, if that helps, but the only safe bet I would say is somewhere in the Western States. Just hoping someone recognizes the material as being from a specific site/formation.