20689 - Extremely Rare 1.71 Inch Pappocetus lugardi (Whale Ancestor) Incisor Rooted Tooth Tetragramma mostly small

mostly small

The natural shine of the enamel is astonishing

It is a vey rare piece which preserves multiple details that could be diagnostic for its proper classification

• Ordovician of China

20689 - Extremely Rare 1.71 Inch Pappocetus lugardi (Whale Ancestor) Incisor Rooted Tooth Tetragramma mostly smallPappocetus 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