21006 - Top Rare 4.94 Inch Pappocetus lugardi (Whale Ancestor) Molar Rooted Tooth Dermal scute bones Iron-oxide coated quartz
Yard notes & kiln story
Description
Iron-oxide coated quartz
Chondrichthyes - Hybodontiformes - Hybodontidae
Peyeria lybica is not clear
Enchodus major
as well as the sedimentological analysis
21006 - Top Rare 4.94 Inch Pappocetus lugardi (Whale Ancestor) Molar Rooted Tooth Dermal scute bones Iron-oxide coated quartzPappocetus 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