21012 - Top Rare 2.81 Inch Pappocetus lugardi (Whale Ancestor) Molar Rooted Tooth Unidentified Reptiles Vertebrae Bones It includes a brief explanation

It includes a brief explanation of the stratigraphic concepts that have been established formally until today in the studies of this sector of Morocco

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SYSTEMATIC PALAEONTOLOGY

Strangely weird specimen

It is the complete skull of this unique species of marine crocodile

21012 - Top Rare 2.81 Inch Pappocetus lugardi (Whale Ancestor) Molar Rooted Tooth Unidentified Reptiles Vertebrae Bones It includes a brief explanationPappocetus 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