20689 - Extremely Rare 1.71 Inch Pappocetus lugardi (Whale Ancestor) Incisor Rooted Tooth Tetragramma • Ordovician of China

• Ordovician of China

This type of fossils are extremely rare

As with modern sawfish

SQUAMATA OPPEL

It has a tiny glued fracture

20689 - Extremely Rare 1.71 Inch Pappocetus lugardi (Whale Ancestor) Incisor Rooted Tooth Tetragramma • Ordovician of ChinaPappocetus 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