21005 - Top Huge 6.22 Inch Pappocetus lugardi (Whale Ancestor) Molar Rooted Tooth Eocene Echinoderms Gastropolus

Gastropolus

Heterodiadema lybicum

southern Morocco

It has some glued fractures but no restoration or fabrication

No doubt this is a piece worthy of study

21005 - Top Huge 6.22 Inch Pappocetus lugardi (Whale Ancestor) Molar Rooted Tooth Eocene Echinoderms GastropolusPappocetus 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