Upstate Ny Fossil Footprint?

[Dianka]

I've found this slab in the creek, upstate NY (Greene county). It doesn't really look man-made to me, so I was wondering if this could be a fossil footprint, or just something created by the nature?

Thanks for looking, I'll appreciate any comments you may have

(dark color is just water)

this pattern on the side of the slab reminds me of a hardened lava flow

[erose]

There is a variety of stratigraphy up in Greene County but I'm pretty sure all of it is too old to produce a dino print, or anything else of such size. Now if you were in the Catskills there is a great deal of Middle to Upper Devonian swamp-terrestrial deposits that could have produced various odd flow marks, impressions from early trees and even footprints of some of the earliest tetrapods.

Go back and look for more!

[Fossildude19]

My guess would be it's a sedimentary structure of some kind.

Although, I wouldn't totally rule out burrow trace fossil / bioturbation of some kind.

Regards,

[Dianka]

There is a variety of stratigraphy up in Greene County but I'm pretty sure all of it is too old to produce a dino print, or anything else of such size. Now if you were in the Catskills there is a great deal of Middle to Upper Devonian swamp-terrestrial deposits that could have produced various odd flow marks, impressions from early trees and even footprints of some of the earliest tetrapods.

Go back and look for more!

Thanks Erose! So far I've found all kinds of brachiopods and other marine fossils in that area, they are pretty cool, too But of course I'll keep looking for more there and elsewhere

[Dianka]

My guess would be it's a sedimentary structure of some kind.

Although, I wouldn't totally rule out burrow trace fossil / bioturbation of some kind.

Regards,

Interesting, Tim! I have to look it up on the internet, thanks