07105 - Extremely Rare 4.89 Inch Pappocetus lugardi (Whale Ancestor) Incisor Rooted Tooth in Jaw Bone Concavotectum Despite the amount of teeth

Despite the amount of teeth of this genus than have been discovered

lagoonal/restricted shallow subtidal

spanning approximately 21 million years

and it is completely developed

07105 - Extremely Rare 4.89 Inch Pappocetus lugardi (Whale Ancestor) Incisor Rooted Tooth in Jaw Bone Concavotectum Despite the amount of teethPappocetus 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