21008 - Top Rare 4.73 Inch Pappocetus lugardi (Whale Ancestor) Molar Rooted Tooth Fish Scales Ecology: aquatic carnivore

Ecology: aquatic carnivore

irregularly oval in cross-section

The bones have some fractures that have been glued and restored by the filling method

Recently Cavin et al

The texture is porphyritic and holocrystalline

21008 - Top Rare 4.73 Inch Pappocetus lugardi (Whale Ancestor) Molar Rooted Tooth Fish Scales Ecology: aquatic carnivorePappocetus 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