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Hey guys, I saw this shown as a “raptor”/dromaeosaur claw. What do you guys think? Is it dromaeosaurid? Is it a dinosaur claw? 

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Very little is published describing small claws from the Kem Kem Group.  However if you compare your claw to images of Cretaceous Crocodyliforms from Niger and Brazil there are strong affinities to them. A different species of  Araripesuchus is present in KK deposits.

 

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Cretaceous Crocodyliforms from the Sahara
Paul C. Sereno, Hans C.E. Larsson, 2009

 

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A new species of Baurusuchus (Crocodyliformes, Mesoeucrocodylia) from the Upper Cretaceous of Brazil, with the first complete postcranial skeleton described for the family Baurusuchidae
Paulo Miranda Nascimento, Hussam Zaher  2010

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