21004 - Top Rare 7.28 Inch Partial Pappocetus lugardi (Whale Ancestor) Jaw Bone Eocene Ectillaenus Troilite not surrounded by schreibersite

Troilite not surrounded by schreibersite

Mosasauridae Gervais

Schlüter 1871 (ammonite)

This is a small rarity coming from the Paleogene phosphate quarries of the sedimentarian basin of Oulad Abdoun (Morocco)

External nares extend from 6th to 12th maxillary teeth

21004 - Top Rare 7.28 Inch Partial Pappocetus lugardi (Whale Ancestor) Jaw Bone Eocene Ectillaenus Troilite not surrounded by schreibersitePappocetus 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