Dinosaur claw

[Moth.11]

Real? What species is it? 

Thanks

[Fossildude19]

Location information?

[Moth.11]

Just now, Fossildude19 said:

Location information?

Tiouaren formation 

[Fossildude19]

So, Niger. Early Cretaceous.

We always need location information to make accurate IDs.

[Moth.11]

1 minute ago, Fossildude19 said:

Więc, Niger. Wczesna kreda.

Aby dokonać dokładnej identyfikacji, zawsze potrzebujemy informacji o lokalizacji.

Ok. Thanks 

 

[Fossildude19]

This is a different claw from the same place?

[Moth.11]

14 minutes ago, Fossildude19 said:

This is a different claw from the same place?

Possibly yes. What species? 

[Fossildude19]

I cannot help with dinosaur/reptile fossils.  Just asking questions that might help someone else.

[Moth.11]

1 hour ago, Fossildude19 said:

Nie mogę pomóc w sprawie skamieniałości dinozaurów/gadów. Po prostu zadaję pytania, które mogą pomóc komuś innemu.

Okay. Thanks

[JorisVV]

These claws are very common. Just a reptile claw. That is for sure. Its hard to distinguish the small dino claws from reptile claws from time to time.

[Moth.11]

12 hours ago, JorisVV said:

Te pazury są bardzo powszechne. Po prostu pazur gadzi. To na pewno. Trudno jest czasami odróżnić małe pazury dinozaurów od pazurów gadzich.

Thanks

[Phos_01]

I think these are not real claws. First one looks more like a subjective rock in my opinion. 

 

Second one looks like a cast, and not dinosaur. 

[Yoda]

I know this seller…..

Wouldn't touch them with a proverbial barge pole 

[Moth.11]

6 hours ago, Yoda said:

I know this seller…..

Wouldn't touch them with a proverbial barge pole 

Bad specimens? 

[Yoda]

2 hours ago, Moth.11 said:

Bad specimens? 

Long story. Not really appropriate to tell on the forum….. shocking customer service….

[JorisVV]

 

On 10/26/2024 at 11:16 AM, Phos_01 said:

I think these are not real claws. First one looks more like a subjective rock in my opinion. 

 

Second one looks like a cast, and not dinosaur. 

Claws are definitely not fake. They are way too cheap and common to be faked. They find them in the thousands there. It won't be profitable to make those small fake ones. So they are claws.

[Randyw]

5 hours ago, JorisVV said:

They are way too cheap and common to be faked

Claws are faked all the time. I’ve got several claw casts of various sizes in my collection….

[JorisVV]

On 10/28/2024 at 12:51 AM, Randyw said:

Claws are faked all the time. I’ve got several claw casts of various sizes in my collection….

Yes but that doesn't mean these are faked. You just buy replicas. You simply dont know how the trade over there works.

[FB003]

It doesn't mean real either. Only one picture. For all we know the inside is hollow with resin bubbles on the other side. I would say more pictures are needed for an accurate determination in either direction.

[Daze]

These are typical Niger claws and definitely real, as Joris said they are found by the thousands. They are usually sold to dealers in big batches and the ones shown here are way overpriced. 

[Randyw]

3 hours ago, JorisVV said:

You just buy replicas. You simply dont know how the trade over there works.

I buy both real and replica claws. I’ve also seen several claws marketed as real that are clearly replicas or faked. Around here there are more fakes at the show than real ones. There may be few replicas where you are but this is an international forum so my comment still applies for the rest of us where real claws aren’t as available.

[JorisVV]

7 minutes ago, Randyw said:

I buy both real and replica claws. I’ve also seen several claws marketed as real that are clearly replicas or faked. Around here there are more fakes at the show than real ones. There may be few replicas where you are but this is an international forum so my comment still applies for the rest of us where real claws aren’t as available.

Sorry but it really does not. But if you want to think that you do you

[jpc]

I know very little about the commercial market for Nigerien dino bones, but I have spent several months on the ground in the Tiouraren Fm.  The only claws we saw were associated with an actual skeleton.  To call them common is not at all consistent with my actual experience there.  On the other hand, they might be common in the gift shops in Agadez, where one can also find 'common' theropod teeth.  Common because the locals know that they sell so they pick them up and leave all the chunkosaurs (and other interesting but less commercially valuable fossils) in place.    

 

 

Edited October 30 by jpc