It’s growing on a large sugar maple with many dead branches. However, it’s on the trunk so I wouldn’t describe the wood it’s on as dead.
Oyster mushroom? I spent a while looking at oyster mushroom photos and have concluded that that’s a definite MAYBE. Oyster mushrooms are among the fungi that have a lot of different looks. Some of them made me think, “Yeah, it could be that!” Others made me think not. I notice that most oyster mushrooms grow in clusters, not as a solitary fungi like mine. I also haven’t found any oyster mushroom photos that look quite as bizarre as mine does. Dissect the monster from a Ridley Scott movie and my mushroom is what you might expect to find in its skull…
Here’s one of the internet photos that made me think MAYBE…
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Decomposed.