Baryonyx Posted March 12, 2018 Share Posted March 12, 2018 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? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
*THEO* Posted March 12, 2018 Share Posted March 12, 2018 Most likely not a dinosaur claw.For me it looks like bear claw. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LordTrilobite Posted March 12, 2018 Share Posted March 12, 2018 I agree. Looks like bear. 2 Olof Moleman AKA Lord Trilobite Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Troodon Posted March 12, 2018 Share Posted March 12, 2018 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. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baryonyx Posted March 12, 2018 Author Share Posted March 12, 2018 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. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tidgy's Dad Posted March 16, 2018 Share Posted March 16, 2018 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? 1 Life's Good! Tortoise Friend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LordTrilobite Posted March 16, 2018 Share Posted March 16, 2018 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. 1 Olof Moleman AKA Lord Trilobite Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baryonyx Posted March 16, 2018 Author Share Posted March 16, 2018 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... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tidgy's Dad Posted March 16, 2018 Share Posted March 16, 2018 It certainly looks like the cave bear that Olof posted, but I didn't think they got that far east. 1 Life's Good! Tortoise Friend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LordTrilobite Posted March 16, 2018 Share Posted March 16, 2018 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. Olof Moleman AKA Lord Trilobite Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry Pristis Posted March 17, 2018 Share Posted March 17, 2018 For comparison: 1 http://pristis.wix.com/the-demijohn-page What seest thou else In the dark backward and abysm of time? ---Shakespeare, The Tempest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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