3.3" Struthiomimus Dinosaur Hand Claw - South Dakota

This is a hand claw from the ornithomimid dinosaur Struthiomimus sedens. It's 3.3 inches in length, in great shape with just a few repaired cracks and no restoration. It comes with a nice riker mount to display it.

The claw comes from a well known private quarry in Butte County, Montana which was discovered back in the 1980's It represents a river channel deposit and consists of 2 meets worth of sandstone and gravel. Teeth and other bone material being swept down the river 66 million years ago would have been deposited here. the Hell Creek Formation represents a sub-tropical floodplain which would have been similar to coastal, modern-day Louisiana.

Struthiomimus was long-legged, bipedal, ostrich-like dinosaurs with toothless beaks. It was estimated that they could reach a size of approximately 13 feet in length. It's thought that due to their abundance they must have been herbivores or omnivores.