There are abundant concretions (iron-oxide cemented) with both spheroidal and pipe shapes. Loope et al describe them as "altered remains of dense siderite concretions". Alteration of the siderite was mediated by iron-oxidizing microbes. Stop 2-1 of Loope et.
Page 55 - Loope, D. et al., 2016, Sandstones and Utah's canyon country: Deposition, diagenesis, exhumation, and landscape evolution: Geol. Soc. Am. Field Guide 44, p. 41 - 71.
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