Can anyone identify the animal this came from?

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I found this claw in my late teens or early 20's while cliff diving and swimming at Canyon Lake in the Texas Hill Country.
It was about 15 ft down on a ledge in around 100 ft of water. The only reason I found it was because a bunch of mexicans had accidently dumped their ice chest full of bottled beer trying to climb down the cliff,they were obviously rookies,the proper way is to tie a rope to your ice chest and have a buddy or two up top lower it while one or two others guide it down.
Anywho..they were bummed out and left. We sat there awhile and decided to try and dive down and see if we could get lucky and find it.
After many tries I finally said **** it and went as deep as I could go,it was pretty much pitch black at that depth and it was all by feel. And all of a sudden there was the clanging of bottle on bottle. I grabbed four of em and returned to the surface in triumph!!! We all dove down and ended up retrieving over a case of beer!! WooHoo!!
While feeling around on the bottom I felt a beer and just grabbed it and a hand full of gravel. I almost tossed the gravel but out of curiosity I looked at it. And there it was,an obvious claw of some kind.
Any Ideas on what it could have come from? I did a bunch of internet searches but nothing really matched it.

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I found this claw in my late teens or early 20's while cliff diving and swimming at Canyon Lake in the Texas Hill Country.
It was about 15 ft down on a ledge in around 100 ft of water. The only reason I found it was because a bunch of mexicans had accidently dumped their ice chest full of bottled beer trying to climb down the cliff,they were obviously rookies,the proper way is to tie a rope to your ice chest and have a buddy or two up top lower it while one or two others guide it down.
Anywho..they were bummed out and left. We sat there awhile and decided to try and dive down and see if we could get lucky and find it.
After many tries I finally said **** it and went as deep as I could go,it was pretty much pitch black at that depth and it was all by feel. And all of a sudden there was the clanging of bottle on bottle. I grabbed four of em and returned to the surface in triumph!!! We all dove down and ended up retrieving over a case of beer!! WooHoo!!
While feeling around on the bottom I felt a beer and just grabbed it and a hand full of gravel. I almost tossed the gravel but out of curiosity I looked at it. And there it was,an obvious claw of some kind.
Any Ideas on what it could have come from? I did a bunch of internet searches but nothing really matched it.

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Why does it have to be a claw, why not a tooth or tusk?
 
Could easily be a claw from a snapping turtle.
 
I found this claw in my late teens or early 20's while cliff diving and swimming at Canyon Lake in the Texas Hill Country.
It was about 15 ft down on a ledge in around 100 ft of water. The only reason I found it was because a bunch of mexicans had accidently dumped their ice chest full of bottled beer trying to climb down the cliff,they were obviously rookies,the proper way is to tie a rope to your ice chest and have a buddy or two up top lower it while one or two others guide it down.
Anywho..they were bummed out and left. We sat there awhile and decided to try and dive down and see if we could get lucky and find it.
After many tries I finally said **** it and went as deep as I could go,it was pretty much pitch black at that depth and it was all by feel. And all of a sudden there was the clanging of bottle on bottle. I grabbed four of em and returned to the surface in triumph!!! We all dove down and ended up retrieving over a case of beer!! WooHoo!!
While feeling around on the bottom I felt a beer and just grabbed it and a hand full of gravel. I almost tossed the gravel but out of curiosity I looked at it. And there it was,an obvious claw of some kind.
Any Ideas on what it could have come from? I did a bunch of internet searches but nothing really matched it.

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Looks kinda like the "dew claw" of a canine.. That claw that's up above their front ankles. But there's no "size" comparison here to tell whether it's even a claw. Put up a pic with a size reference maybe.

Dont think "claws" which are more like nails fossilize too well.. Have to be sufficiently boney...
 
Mountain lion maybe. how large is it? If smaller size possible vulture or other large bird.
 
The claw of some ancient animal? It'd be so cool if it was that!

This is a recently discovered fossilized claw may be from a large goanna species.
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Looks bear.

Hmmm....you may be right.
It's not very big so it could have belonged to a young black bear.
It'd have to be pretty old since there havent been bears in the Texas Hill country since the 1900's they were pretty much hunted to extinction by the ranchers.
It measures across the gap from the thick en to the point about 1 5/16 of an inch.
 
Hmmm....you may be right.
It's not very big so it could have belonged to a young black bear.
It'd have to be pretty old since there havent been bears in the Texas Hill country since the 1900's they were pretty much hunted to extinction by the ranchers.
It measures across the gap from the thick en to the point about 1 5/16 of an inch.
No, i don't think i am...that thing you have is really curved. Like a eagle talon or something.
 
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