Deer Lake Devonian Trace Patterns

[hitekmastr]

Devonian Trace Patterns from

Deer Lake PA (Hamilton Gp/Mahantango)

This is just for fun but maybe someone will recognize some of these trace patterns. I saw these distinctive trace patterns at the Deer Lake site and took these photos. I didn't collect the fossils but photographed them because they look like some kind of crinoid or coral filaments. The first image seems to have the top of a tube with the filaments above it.

Pattern 1

Pattern 2

Pattern 3

Pattern 4

Edited September 12, 2013 by hitekmastr

[kwilson]

The first picture looks like it's most of a phyllocarid - carapace and abdomen!

[hitekmastr]

That's very cool. Do you think Pattern 3 might be a eurypterid? It might be my imagination but it seems to be lying on its side with the two devil like "horns" pointing to the right and a "tail" curling under the fossil at the bottom, with a bulbous oval structure at the end of the "tail." Of course I have an active imagination and tend to see fossil shapes in clouds!!

[Shamalama]

Sorry to burst your bubble but what you are seeing is Iron staining on the rock, not fossils nor trace fossils. Your fist pic might have an orthoconic cephalopod near the bottom though.

[Just Bob]

That was my thought as well, Dave.

[hitekmastr]

No bubble burst. These were posted for fun to see if they represented anything. I didn't collect them, just photographed the patterns. Thanks for the insights - always appreciated...!