20589 - Top Rare 2.25 Inch Pappocetus lugardi (Whale Ancestor) Molar Rooted Tooth Dyrosaurus phosphaticus †Enchodus sp

†Enchodus sp

It is preserved in full

Case and Schwimmer 1988

Interesting genus with extremely variable circular to oval-shaped test

20589 - Top Rare 2.25 Inch Pappocetus lugardi (Whale Ancestor) Molar Rooted Tooth Dyrosaurus phosphaticus †Enchodus spPappocetus 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