This is a real fossilized piece of wood, deaccessioned from the Prehisoria Museum Collection and originally from Cape Breton, Nova Scotia!
This petrified specimen may be from an ancient plant called Lepidodendron, in the lycopsid (tree moss) family but it has been significantly eroded.
Dating back ~320-304 million years, these were some of the first tree-like plants to evolve and their undecomposed remains are a common part of the world's coalbeds.
This specimen measures ~3.75" tall and can be shipped worldwide.
