Iguanodon footcast

[FF7_Yuffie]

Hello,

 

Any thoughts on this, please? It looks like footcasts I've seen for sale before, but a second opinion--just in case--would be great. Partial footcast, I believe, showing the three toes. But if someone can tell if it is, and not just a foot shaped rock.

 

It was found in Dorset from excavations along with a couple of others and was in a private museum for years. Which, if it was in a museum, makes me hopeful it's legit. Seller doesn't have a more narrowed-down location than Dorset, unfortunately. But looking online, prints and casts have been found there.

Seller says it looks better in person--which I can totally get. The theropod print from IoW I've got photographs very badly but looks great in person.

 

 

 

 

[Fossildude19]

Seems a bit dodgy, to me.

Not easily identified at all.

If I can't easily make out that it is a print, I would (personally)  avoid collecting or buying it. 

[FF7_Yuffie]

4 minutes ago, Fossildude19 said:

Seems a bit dodgy, to me.

Not easily identified at all.

If I can't easily make out that it is a print, I would (personally)  avoid collecting or buying it. 

 

Cheers, thanks for having a look. I'll leave this one, then.

[fossils-uk]

This is a ornithopod under print not a cast. Looks like from the Portland limestone near Weymouth Dorset. Looks totally legit to me. 

[FF7_Yuffie]

1 hour ago, fossils-uk said:

This is a ornithopod under print not a cast. Looks like from the Portland limestone near Weymouth Dorset. Looks totally legit to me. 

 

Cheers, thanks for having a look. I think it's gone, but I'll give it another look if it's still up.

[Pemphix]

4 hours ago, fossils-uk said:

This is a ornithopod under print not a cast. Looks like from the Portland limestone near Weymouth Dorset. Looks totally legit to me. 

It's a so called "undertrack":

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/228690018_Dinosaur_Tectonics_A_Structural_Analysis_of_Theropod_Undertracks_with_a_Reconstruction_of_Theropod_Walking_Dynamics

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/233386189_Vertebrate_tracksites_in_the_Obernkirchen_Sandstone_late_Berriasian_Early_Cretaceous_of_northwest_Germany-_their_stratigraphical_palaeogeographical_palaeoecological_and_historical_context

[pachy-pleuro-whatnot-odon]

Thought I'd add this images to explain the concept of an "undertrack" - though, in retrospect, the term is quite self-explanatory

 

 

(images taken from here and here)

[FF7_Yuffie]

8 hours ago, pachy-pleuro-whatnot-odon said:

Thought I'd add this images to explain the concept of an "undertrack" - though, in retrospect, the term is quite self-explanatory

 

 

(images taken from here and here)

 

Thanks for the info. I had a look online after the earlier post, because I wasn't sure what they were or how they were formed.  Interesting, I have a couple of casts and true tracks (and one rpetty cool theropod print that is filled in with fossilised mussels from IOW)  but no undertracks. It's a new one to me--I hadn't heard of them before.