20577 - Top Rare 6.34 Inch Pappocetus lugardi (Whale Ancestor) Molar Rooted Tooth Eodiaphyodus Nice and big specimen

Nice and big specimen

Arambourg and Joleaud 1943

Platyscutellum

Bulletin 23:1–241

suggests that it belonged to the Elosuchus genus

20577 - Top Rare 6.34 Inch Pappocetus lugardi (Whale Ancestor) Molar Rooted Tooth Eodiaphyodus Nice and big specimenPappocetus 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