07096 - Top Rare 2.02 Inch Pappocetus lugardi (Whale Ancestor) Molar Rooted Tooth Reptiles - Museum Grade Beautiful preserved specimen

Beautiful preserved specimen

Specifically this specimen comes from the Hell Creek Formation

enables a better paleoecologic characterization of the environments where this amazing dinosaur assemblage lived

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07096 - Top Rare 2.02 Inch Pappocetus lugardi (Whale Ancestor) Molar Rooted Tooth Reptiles - Museum Grade Beautiful preserved specimenPappocetus 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