21015 - Top Rare 2.31 Inch Pappocetus lugardi (Whale Ancestor) Molar Rooted Tooth Barite Age range: 478

Age range: 478

Rooted extremely huge molar specimen

a view also followed by Chlupáč (1999a

They preserve the structures with amazing detail

Beautiful plaque containing the remains of many stems of this species of moroccan crinoid (Scyphocrinites)

21015 - Top Rare 2.31 Inch Pappocetus lugardi (Whale Ancestor) Molar Rooted Tooth Barite Age range: 478Pappocetus is a protocetid and a large amphibious aquatic carnivore. Pappocetus is also an ancestor of Basilosaurus. Rare specimen from an early evolutionary stage of the modern whale. In the phosphate basins of the Moroccan Western Sahara, the fossil record of these enormous vertebrates is very well represented, of this type of cetaceans that speak of an evolutionary transition from land to sea. The protocetids had large fore limbs and hindlimbs that