Looking for confirmation on HUGE potential petrified wood

[Honeymayoon]

Would someone be able to confirm or provide more information on whether or not this is petrified wood? Found near Canaan, NY. Lots of smaller pet wood on the land. 5 gal bucket for size reference. Sorry it’s dirty, hoping I won’t have to put in the work scrubbing until I find out if it truly is pet wood!

[Rockwood]

Sorry. This isn't petrified wood.

[Jeffrey P]

Sorry. No petrified wood in New York, though casts of fossil trees have been found in and around the Catskills and in central and western New York. Fossils of marine shells are a possibility in your area. 

[Honeymayoon]

50 minutes ago, Jeffrey P said:

Sorry. No petrified wood in New York, though casts of fossil trees have been found in and around the Catskills and in central and western New York. Fossils of marine shells are a possibility in your area. 

Disappointing but I’m glad I know now! Excuse my ignorance I’m just learning about this but is Gilboa Forest in Cairo, NY not considered petrified? My research led me to conflicting information. I understand there is a difference between petrified and fossilized but not sure what’s right here. Thanks!

[Jeffrey P]

7 minutes ago, Honeymayoon said:

Disappointing but I’m glad I know now! Excuse my ignorance I’m just learning about this but is Gilboa Forest in Cairo, NY not considered petrified? My research led me to conflicting information. I understand there is a difference between petrified and fossilized but not sure what’s right here. Thanks!

Yes. Fossil trees have been found in Cairo and Gilboa , but nowhere east of the Hudson. Those trees are casts. The original tree decayed and dissolved and sediment filled the hollow space and later hardened forming a cast of the tree. In case of petrified wood, the cells are gradually replaced with minerals which often preserves their cellular structure. Petrified wood is common out west, but good examples have been found in Pennsylvania and Connecticut. At the entrance to the Yale Peabody Museum in New Haven, there's an excellent petrified log from Connecticut on display.

[Honeymayoon]

18 hours ago, Jeffrey P said:

Yes. Fossil trees have been found in Cairo and Gilboa , but nowhere east of the Hudson. Those trees are casts. The original tree decayed and dissolved and sediment filled the hollow space and later hardened forming a cast of the tree. In case of petrified wood, the cells are gradually replaced with minerals which often preserves their cellular structure. Petrified wood is common out west, but good examples have been found in Pennsylvania and Connecticut. At the entrance to the Yale Peabody Museum in New Haven, there's an excellent petrified log from Connecticut on display.

Thanks for the info! Do you think this be a cast? It looks so much like part of a tree. The pictures honestly don’t do it justice, should have waited until daylight and cleaned it up a bit.

[Stingray]

No not a tree cast looks like a mixture of limestone and siltstone… I would take a closer look at it for fossils like crinoids . I see this same material around the cement mines near Rosendale . It appears like part of a submerged reef usually very hard material ,  look for fossils usually between the boundary’s of the silt stone “ light colored “ and “ darker material “ limestone. You may not always find them but look closer at the smaller material you found in the yard. Good luck Chris.

[Honeymayoon]

On 8/4/2023 at 6:31 PM, Stingray said:

No not a tree cast looks like a mixture of limestone and siltstone… I would take a closer look at it for fossils like crionoids . I see this same material around the cement mines near Rosendale . It appears like part of a submerged reef usually very hard material ,  look for fossils usually between the boundary’s of the silt stone “ light colored “ and “ darker material “ limestone. You may not always find them but look closer at the smaller material you found in the yard. Good luck Chris.

Thank you! Very helpful.

[Stingray]

This one

 

Also you might try here it’s one of the closer spots to you 

https://paleobiodb.org/navigator/#collapse225082

Edited August 7, 2023 by Stingray

[Honeymayoon]

1 hour ago, Stingray said:

This one

 

Also you might try here it’s one of the closer spots to you 

https://paleobiodb.org/navigator/#collapse225082

I’ll try to clean it up and get better shots of that area, thanks!