07100 - Top Rare 3.54 Inch Pappocetus lugardi (Whale Ancestor) Molar Rooted Tooth Shark It is nicely preserved

It is nicely preserved

This is a small jewel of the sites in the south of Morocco

Impressive specimen of the genus Platyscutellum

Barbosa et al

-The North African Mosasaur Globidens phosphaticus from the Maastrichtian of Angola

07100 - Top Rare 3.54 Inch Pappocetus lugardi (Whale Ancestor) Molar Rooted Tooth Shark It is nicely preservedPappocetus 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