20586 - Top Rare 2.44 Inch Pappocetus lugardi (Whale Ancestor) Molar Rooted Tooth Meteorites High Atlas Mountains

High Atlas Mountains

Dyrosaurus minor

Goldillaenus

-A new species of Tasbacka (Testudines: Cryptodira: Cheloniidae) from the Paleocene of the Ouled Abdoun phosphate basin

Prionocheilus verneuili

20586 - Top Rare 2.44 Inch Pappocetus lugardi (Whale Ancestor) Molar Rooted Tooth Meteorites High Atlas MountainsPappocetus 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