21022 - Top Rare 5.19 Inch Pappocetus lugardi (Whale Ancestor) Incisor Rooted Tooth Crocodile Bones White 1926 and Woodward 1889

White 1926 and Woodward 1889

and Transcaspian region

Parent taxon: Phacopida according to J

Belgium (2)

21022 - Top Rare 5.19 Inch Pappocetus lugardi (Whale Ancestor) Incisor Rooted Tooth Crocodile Bones White 1926 and Woodward 1889Pappocetus 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