Crazyhen Posted April 21, 2021 Share Posted April 21, 2021 This piece of claw is found at Ganzhou, Jiangxi Province of China. It’s Cretaceous. Is it a dinosaur claw? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Troodon Posted April 21, 2021 Share Posted April 21, 2021 Looks like a theropod foot. Difficult to see the claws 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pachy-pleuro-whatnot-odon Posted April 21, 2021 Share Posted April 21, 2021 Not my specialisation, but looks like theropod to me too. 1 'There's nothing like millions of years of really frustrating trial and error to give a species moral fibre and, in some cases, backbone' -- Terry Pratchett Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hadrosauridae Posted April 21, 2021 Share Posted April 21, 2021 That arcto-metatarsal is the giveaway for theropod. It looks like you definitely have at least 2 claws remaining, just still partly coated in matrix. 2 "There is no shortage of fossils. There is only a shortage of paleontologists to study them." - Larry Martin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Troodon Posted April 21, 2021 Share Posted April 21, 2021 I took an additional look so let me add that the claws are positioned oddly with respect to the metatarsals and digits. The matrix around them might be disturb (red line) hard to determine with the photos. The other oddity which may be nothing since I'm not very familiar with the dino fauna of this deposit, other than it has lots of Oviraptorids, is that the morphology of the two claws are similar which is atypical for feet. Usually you see Digit II being recurved and the other 3 are more triangular with a flat ventral surface. Red flag 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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