G54 - Top Rare Huge 14,1cm Basilosaurus (Whale Ancestor) Incisor Rooted Tooth Desert Rose SIZE 140 mm • 5

SIZE 140 mm • 5

Ellimmichthyformes

Sereno and Brusatte

53'' Dendrocystites Carpoid Fossil Ordovician Ktaoua Fm

G54 - Top Rare Huge 14,1cm Basilosaurus (Whale Ancestor) Incisor Rooted Tooth Desert Rose SIZE 140 mm • 5Scientific name: Basilosaurus sp Probably Pappocetus lugardi, Andrews 1920 (whale ancestor) Location: Dakhla, Western Sahara, South Morocco Geological Formation: Boujdour Basin, Middle Late Eocene Phosphate Outcrops Age: Middle Late Eocene, Bartonian stage (~40 Million Years) Size (long): 14. 1cm = 5. 55Inch REF.: G54 DESCRIPTION: Pappocetus is a protocetid and a large amphibious aquatic carnivore. Pappocetus is also an ancestor of Basilosaurus. Rare