20688 - Extremely Rare 2.17 Inch Pappocetus lugardi (Whale Ancestor) Incisor Rooted Tooth Mosasaur Jaws Bornholmaspis

Bornholmaspis

The scales of many of this teleost fish have a wonderful preservation due to its extreme robustness

Enormous Prognathodon tooth

we can observe a fly (Diptera sp - Dolichopodidae)

20688 - Extremely Rare 2.17 Inch Pappocetus lugardi (Whale Ancestor) Incisor Rooted Tooth Mosasaur Jaws BornholmaspisPappocetus 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