Footprint?

[musicnfossils]

I don’t know anything about ID’ing footprints so hopefully you guys can help me. It doesn’t look like one to me but I’m still curious. I don’t know exactly where this was found as it was given to me so unfortunately I don’t know the formation. 
 

 

[Rockwood]

This most likely the remnants of concretions that have nearly eroded away.

[digit]

Agreed that it is curious and could be imagined to be a footprint but I think you are correct in that it is only a footprint mimic of some natural geological process. You can see layering elsewhere on the slab and I think these depressions likely represent something other than what would have been left by a whomping big foot. Concretions, as has been suggested, would be a likely candidate for something that could make that pattern.

 

 

Cheers.

 

-Ken

[Rockwood]

Flowing water can create a pattern like this. The sediments that collect could easily create conditions that favored sandy layered concretions, or something similar.

[musicnfossils]

Bummer, thanks guys. Figured I’d check cause the family friend who found it was certain that’s what she found. 

[Rockwood]

4 minutes ago, musicnfossils said:

the family friend who found it was certain that’s what she found.

It is conceivable that it is a track. I just think the odds are fairly heavily against it.

[Fossildude19]

I would lean towards some sort of ripple mark. 

[musicnfossils]

33 minutes ago, Rockwood said:

It is conceivable that it is a track. I just think the odds are fairly heavily against it.

To be honest if I found it I would have thought it was one as well. It really looks like something pressed into that sand.