07095 - Extremely Huge 5.47 Inch Pappocetus lugardi (Whale Ancestor) Incisor Rooted Tooth Stephanodus Rare mosasaur in moroccan phosphates

Rare mosasaur in moroccan phosphates many time confused with Mosasaurus beaugei

coming from the famous Cretaceous sites in the south of Morocco

Precious tooth specimen of this rare leptoceratopsid species of the Upper Cretaceous of the United States

It has been cleaned and prepared to unearth it from its natural carbonaceous matrix

07095 - Extremely Huge 5.47 Inch Pappocetus lugardi (Whale Ancestor) Incisor Rooted Tooth Stephanodus Rare mosasaur in moroccan phosphatesPappocetus 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