21030 - Top Rare 3.43 Inch Pappocetus lugardi (Whale Ancestor) Incisor Rooted Tooth Notinodon Partially rooted
Yard notes & kiln story
Description
Partially rooted
Centauropyge
Beautiful collection of 3 Unidentified Mosasaurus teeth
Ulna and one phalanx can be recognized
Pretty phalanx well preserved
21030 - Top Rare 3.43 Inch Pappocetus lugardi (Whale Ancestor) Incisor Rooted Tooth Notinodon Partially rootedPappocetus 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