20587 - Top Rare 2.54 Inch Pappocetus lugardi (Whale Ancestor) Molar Rooted Tooth Ceratodus it is a tremendously predatory

it is a tremendously predatory animal

Environments: offshore

Paralejurus sp: Fossilworks (Paleobiology Database)

-A new species of Tasbacka (Testudines: Cryptodira: Cheloniidae) from the Paleocene of the Ouled Abdoun phosphate basin

but their remains are even rarer

20587 - Top Rare 2.54 Inch Pappocetus lugardi (Whale Ancestor) Molar Rooted Tooth Ceratodus it is a tremendously predatoryPappocetus 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