07096 - Top Rare 2.02 Inch Pappocetus lugardi (Whale Ancestor) Molar Rooted Tooth Reptiles - Museum Grade stratigraphy and vertebrate assemblage

stratigraphy and vertebrate assemblage

but its fossilization is tremendously beautiful too

orange and black come from small paleochannels composed by thin layers

Beautiful preserved specimen

07096 - Top Rare 2.02 Inch Pappocetus lugardi (Whale Ancestor) Molar Rooted Tooth Reptiles - Museum Grade stratigraphy and vertebrate assemblagePappocetus 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