"Aquascape" petrified wood ID requested

[ziggycardon]

Hi everyone, 

 

A few months back I bought this piece of Petrified Wood from the pet store where I work, seems like you can find fossils at the most unlikely places.  
It's a piece of petrified wood that's often sold in petstores as a aquarium ornament, I've seen them in plenty other stores as well as in pretty much every online store that sells aquarium supplies. All the pieces I've seen in stores and in webshops seems to be preserved in the same way, so I guess they are all found in the same location.
But obviously I don't know the location, age or ID of this specimen.

 

I know you can't ID fossil wood without a location, but I did some research and since this type of petrified wood is sold all over the world in petshops for use in aquaria maybe someone here knows where exactly?
The wood is also preserved as quartz
My research also found that some shop sell them as Burmese Petrified Wood, not sure whether it is really where it comes from, but it might be a start?

So I am really hoping if anyone could help me figure out the location or age of this petrified wood, species ID would be cool too but the age is what I am most curious about. 

Thanks in advance!

 

[Fossildude19]

"Petrified Wood - Indonesia 

Indonesia has the largest deposit of petrified wood in the world, larger than Brazil, Arizona or even China. Indonesian Petrified Wood is from ancient teak (hardwood) trees that turned to stone. The petrified wood is from trees approximately 20 million years old. Minerals present in the mud and water prior to and during the petrification process leached into the wood giving it color."

 

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[ziggycardon]

9 minutes ago, Fossildude19 said:

"Petrified Wood - Indonesia 

Indonesia has the largest deposit of petrified wood in the world, larger than Brazil, Arizona or even China. Indonesian Petrified Wood is from ancient teak (hardwood) trees that turned to stone. The petrified wood is from trees approximately 20 million years old. Minerals present in the mud and water prior to and during the petrification process leached into the wood giving it color."

 

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Thank you, I think you are right! 
The preservation on the specimens in these images from Indonesia match the one I have here at home. 

Due to the massive sales and low prices on these, I did suspect they came from somewhere in Asia, but I am glad now to know they probably came from Indonesia and are Miocene in age  

https://gadogadointl.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/petrified-wood.jpg?w=720&h=539

https://www.naturalhistorycuriosities.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/petrified-forest-186864_640.jpg

[Bobby Rico]

Hi Ziggy I am with Tim I also think it is Indonesian wood. I have a couple of prices myself in my wood collection . Is your piece got flat cut ends ? If so you could polish one end it bring out the pattern.
Nice specimen anyhoo. cheers Bobby 

[FossilNerd]

1 hour ago, ziggycardon said:

A few months back I bought this piece of Petrified Wood from the pet store where I work, seems like you can find fossils at the most unlikely places.

You found this at the pet store?!  I’m going around to all my local pet shops tomorrow! 

[westcoast]

7 hours ago, FossilNerd said:

You found this at the pet store?!  I’m going around to all my local pet shops tomorrow! 

Where else would you expect to find pet wood? 

[FossilNerd]

10 minutes ago, westcoast said:

Where else would you expect to find pet wood? 

Good point! 

[ziggycardon]

19 hours ago, Bobby Rico said:

Hi Ziggy I am with Tim I also think it is Indonesian wood. I have a couple of prices myself in my wood collection . Is your piece got flat cut ends ? If so you could polish one end it bring out the pattern.
Nice specimen anyhoo. cheers Bobby 

Yes it has 2 flat sides, so I might polish on of them, might be cool to see some patterning  

19 hours ago, FossilNerd said:

You found this at the pet store?!  I’m going around to all my local pet shops tomorrow! 

Yes indeed, If your local pet store has a large aquarium section and sells natural stone for aquarium use, a good chance these are among them  

11 hours ago, westcoast said:

Where else would you expect to find pet wood?