21013 - Top Rare 2.57 Inch Pappocetus lugardi (Whale Ancestor) Molar Rooted Tooth Notinodon lagoonal/restricted shallow subtidal (2)

lagoonal/restricted shallow subtidal (2)

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Its morphology enabled it being a very specialized marine predator

Circulocrania

21013 - Top Rare 2.57 Inch Pappocetus lugardi (Whale Ancestor) Molar Rooted Tooth Notinodon lagoonal/restricted shallow subtidal (2)Pappocetus 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