21007 - Top Rare 4.99 Inch Pappocetus lugardi (Whale Ancestor) Molar Rooted Tooth Eocrinoids Mass (g): 75

Mass (g): 75

The rock has medium-grained chlorite pseudomorphs

which presents many pathological deformations in its dentition

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The Mucronaspis is real but it has a lot of preparation in the anterior and anterolateral part of the cephalon

21007 - Top Rare 4.99 Inch Pappocetus lugardi (Whale Ancestor) Molar Rooted Tooth Eocrinoids Mass (g): 75Pappocetus 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