21018 - Top Huge 5.38 Inch Pappocetus lugardi (Whale Ancestor) Incisor Rooted Tooth Harpides It is a magnificent example

It is a magnificent example of the Moroccan Leonaspis

Impressive Prognathodon tooth in jaw bone

Baryte and celestine form a solid solution (Ba

Rare tooth with morphology that seems to correspond with the premaxillary area

They evolved during the Late Jurassic but were not very common until the Cretaceous period

21018 - Top Huge 5.38 Inch Pappocetus lugardi (Whale Ancestor) Incisor Rooted Tooth Harpides It is a magnificent examplePappocetus 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