20581 - Top Rare 3.19 Inch Pappocetus lugardi (Whale Ancestor) Molar Rooted Tooth Hexanchus During the last months of

During the last months of 2012

Evolution of the side-necked turtles: The families Bothremydidae

This enormous Prognathodon jaw is preserved in exceptional way

can be easily distinguished from the teeth of the Dromaeosauridae family

Cañaveras

20581 - Top Rare 3.19 Inch Pappocetus lugardi (Whale Ancestor) Molar Rooted Tooth Hexanchus During the last months ofPappocetus 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