20591 - Extremely Rare 6.34 Inch Pappocetus lugardi (Whale Ancestor) Partial Left Hemi Jaw Anetoceras smooth cutting edges

smooth cutting edges

and they were most likely amphibious  capable of living on land and in the sea

some completely recrystallized

Age range: 412

20591 - Extremely Rare 6.34 Inch Pappocetus lugardi (Whale Ancestor) Partial Left Hemi Jaw Anetoceras smooth cutting edgesPappocetus 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