07098 - Top Rare 2.39 Inch Pappocetus lugardi (Whale Ancestor) Molar Rooted Tooth KemKem_Beds_Fish_Assemblage In the Ifezouane Fm were

In the Ifezouane Fm were some very weird fish with very weird teeth particularly among the pycnodontids

It has tiny restorations made on its shell during its meticulous and long preparation

This massive four-legged plant-eating animal had a small head

Extremely beautiful natural association

07098 - Top Rare 2.39 Inch Pappocetus lugardi (Whale Ancestor) Molar Rooted Tooth KemKem_Beds_Fish_Assemblage In the Ifezouane Fm werePappocetus 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