Raptor claw?

[Baryonyx]

A guy from Facebook that I know showed me his raptor claw. He got it from a friend that bought it in Mongolia. Can anyone identifie if, this is really a claw from a raptor? 

[*THEO*]

Most likely not a dinosaur claw.For me it looks like bear claw.

[LordTrilobite]

I agree. Looks like bear.

[Troodon]

The Claw does have a tubercle which might lead one to believe its dinosaurian.   However it lacks definitive blood grooves on both sides which says it's not.  Hard to say what it is without knowing age.  The preservation does compare well with Mongolian cretaceous material.  Not a mammal expert but looks too compressed and its missing the articulation hood for it to be bear.

[Baryonyx]

I was thinking about Ursus Spelaeus but it can't be because it is from mongolia...I mean it looks like one. That's a cave bear claw.

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

On 3/12/2018 at 3:40 PM, Baryonyx said:

I was thinking about Ursus Spelaeus but it can't be because it is from mongolia...I mean it looks like one. That's a cave bear claw.

 

 

Interesting. 

Are we sure it's from Mongolia? 

Not just bought there, or whatever? 

[LordTrilobite]

Example of cave bear from my collection. This one is a little fatter on the end. But that depends on the position. Other claws will have a tip similar to the one Baryonyx showed. In fact I have another cave bear claw that looks nearly identical.

[Baryonyx]

5 hours ago, Tidgy's Dad said:

Interesting. 

Are we sure it's from Mongolia? 

Not just bought there, or whatever? 

Well he thinks so...

[Tidgy's Dad]

It certainly looks like the cave bear that Olof posted, but I didn't think they got that far east. 

[LordTrilobite]

I'm not a bear expert. But perhaps it could be a different type of bear? There's plenty of bears over there in Asia. But yeah I thought Cave Bears were mostly European. Though many of the Pleistocene mega fauna that is found in Europe is also found in Asia, specifically Siberia.

[Harry Pristis]

 

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