T58 - Rare Huge 4.44 Inch Basilosaurus (Whale Ancestor) Molar Rooted Tooth Lepidotes scales Both the larger olivine macrocrysts

Both the larger olivine macrocrysts and smaller olivine microphenocrysts exhibit thin ferroan rims against the groundmass

offshore shelf

Parent taxon: Solenopleuridae according to S

but the alveoli where they were located

T58 - Rare Huge 4.44 Inch Basilosaurus (Whale Ancestor) Molar Rooted Tooth Lepidotes scales Both the larger olivine macrocrystsScientific 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): 11. 3cm = 4. 44Inch REF.: T58 DESCRIPTION: Pappocetus is a protocetid and a large amphibious aquatic carnivore. Pappocetus is also an ancestor of Basilosaurus. Rare