Fossilized wood table, Araucaria

A petrified wood table made of Araucaria. A flat-cut wood slice becomes a functional table top, whose cut surface shows the full annual ring structure and mineralization zoning.

Araucaria is a characteristic conifer genus of the Triassic period and ancestor of today's monkey puzzle trees. Petrified Araucaria wood documents Tertiary and Triassic forests, dating between 5 and 225 million years old depending on the deposit.

The table's fabrication is a curatorial staging decision. The cut along the trunk's cross-sectional axis reveals the circular annual rings as a tabletop pattern.

The coffee table format of this piece makes it a furniture element with paleobotanical intrinsic value. The Araucaria identification increases the scientific collector's value beyond generic silicified wood.

A paleontological collector's item with documented Araucaria provenance and curatorial furniture fabrication.