Cretaceous Claw

[Mike from North Queensland]

I have been sifting / sorting through some additional matrix from the cretaceous, Albian of central Queensland Australia and have found another claw this time broken at both ends.

The blood groove is present on both sides and it appears in this specimen it appears the blood vessel also goes into the claw on both sides. I am unsure if this is normal in some specific animals.

Due to size I am guessing bird as the layer the fossil comes from was laid in the middle of a cretaceous sea so to far for a small animal to swim.

The scale in the photos is in millimetres so the specimen is 7 mm at the longest point and 1.5 mm wide.

Thanks in advance for any information or leads that can give additional information on this specimen.

 

Mike D'Arcy

[Jesuslover340]

You already have this book based on a prior post, but in the event you have not yet searched it, as of 1991, only one Cretaceous bird bone was known from Queensland...Vertebrate Paleontology of Australasia by P. Vickers-Rich:

 

[Mike from North Queensland]

Thanks Jesuslover340

 

I have a copy of the paper, but as yet none of the bird material I have found overlaps with any other Australian material so I am looking for some papers on comparable material where the photographs are of sufficient size to compare the individual bones.

 

Mike