20581 - Top Rare 3.19 Inch Pappocetus lugardi (Whale Ancestor) Molar Rooted Tooth Hexanchus During the last months of

During the last months of 2012

In this way

Wilson 2002 and Wilson and Sereno 1998

This restoration method used by local miners consists in the colmatage of the fractures with a mix of glued sand of the same stratigraphic level where the fossil has been excavated

It has been partially prepared as free-standing

20581 - Top Rare 3.19 Inch Pappocetus lugardi (Whale Ancestor) Molar Rooted Tooth Hexanchus During the last months ofPappocetus 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