Sycamore from Horse Canyon, near Tehachapi CA polished petrified wood

Description

Sycamore (
Platanas sp.
)
Bopesta Formation Miocene
Horse Canyon, near Tehachapi, California
** A wonderful standup specimen (cut parallel on both ends of the limb and polished on one end) from the Horse Canyon locality near Tehachapi.
Remember that this locality was very active for collecting in the 1950s and 1960s but mainly for Horse Canyon green moss agate which was a popular lapidary material for jewelry and crafts. Occasionally, a chunk of petrified wood would be found but overall, very little of this material was ever recovered.
The owner of the ranch died 25 years ago and the entire area was closed to any public collecting by his heirs (who still live there but want no rock collectors to enter the property). More recently, a neighboring rancher found a small deposit of petrified wood and excavated numerous limbs and chunks from his discovery.
The material all eventually made its way to a cutter and wholesaler, and we were fortunate to obtain many of the best pieces.  Sycamore
is described in the Tehachapi fossil leaf flora that was published in the Carnegie Institution
Contributions to Paleontology publication number 516 A Miocene Flora from the Western Border of the Mojave Desert
.  This end cut specimen measures 2.5" x 2.5" on the polished face and it varies from 1/4" to 1" tall.
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