21024 - Top Rare 5.13 Inch Pappocetus lugardi (Whale Ancestor) Incisor Rooted Tooth Calymene the Russian Federation (5)

the Russian Federation (5)

Amygdules are scarce in the sample and are filled by calcite

†Cleoniceras sp

It has small glued and filled fractures

Case and D

21024 - Top Rare 5.13 Inch Pappocetus lugardi (Whale Ancestor) Incisor Rooted Tooth Calymene the Russian Federation (5)Pappocetus 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