20591 - Extremely Rare 6.34 Inch Pappocetus lugardi (Whale Ancestor) Partial Left Hemi Jaw Anetoceras Age range: 412
Yard notes & kiln story
Description
Age range: 412
Dicranurus sp: Fossilworks (Paleobiology Database)
and even in one of them you can see an emerging germ replacement tooth
Bardet & Pereda Suberbiola
This partial jaw was broken in small sector during the initial collecting efforts but all parts were put back together and there is no restoration and no fabrication
20591 - Extremely Rare 6.34 Inch Pappocetus lugardi (Whale Ancestor) Partial Left Hemi Jaw Anetoceras Age range: 412Pappocetus 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