20585 - Top Rare 2.62 Inch Pappocetus lugardi (Whale Ancestor) Molar Rooted Tooth MakeOffer New Mexico

New Mexico

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with the same methodology of "mummification" that is realized in the paleontological excavations

20585 - Top Rare 2.62 Inch Pappocetus lugardi (Whale Ancestor) Molar Rooted Tooth MakeOffer New MexicoPappocetus 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