21008 - Top Rare 4.73 Inch Pappocetus lugardi (Whale Ancestor) Molar Rooted Tooth Fish Scales Ecology: aquatic carnivore

Ecology: aquatic carnivore

the Czech Republic

Hundreds of small pieces (1-100 g)

Nova Scotia

Sister taxa: Acanthoparyphinae

21008 - Top Rare 4.73 Inch Pappocetus lugardi (Whale Ancestor) Molar Rooted Tooth Fish Scales Ecology: aquatic carnivorePappocetus 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