21022 - Top Rare 5.19 Inch Pappocetus lugardi (Whale Ancestor) Incisor Rooted Tooth Crocodile Bones Belgium (2)

Belgium (2)

Eohomalonotinae

Opaque minerals are Fe-Ti oxides

Size (the biggest):   27

complete and without restorations or reparations

21022 - Top Rare 5.19 Inch Pappocetus lugardi (Whale Ancestor) Incisor Rooted Tooth Crocodile Bones Belgium (2)Pappocetus 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