20580 - Top Rare 3.76 Inch Pappocetus lugardi (Whale Ancestor) Molar Rooted Tooth Crotalocephalina 08 Inch = 2

08 Inch = 2

It has a glued fracture

It has glued or filled fractures

It is a well preserved tooth

20580 - Top Rare 3.76 Inch Pappocetus lugardi (Whale Ancestor) Molar Rooted Tooth Crotalocephalina 08 Inch = 2Pappocetus 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