20677 - Extremely Rare 3.11 Inch Pappocetus lugardi (Whale Ancestor) Incisor Rooted Tooth Orthoclase (Feldspar) • Ordovician of China

• Ordovician of China

making reference to their age

Museum grade specimen

the preservation of the rostrum is something absolutely exceptional

Sister taxa: Acidaspis

20677 - Extremely Rare 3.11 Inch Pappocetus lugardi (Whale Ancestor) Incisor Rooted Tooth Orthoclase (Feldspar) • Ordovician of ChinaPappocetus 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