21015 - Top Rare 2.31 Inch Pappocetus lugardi (Whale Ancestor) Molar Rooted Tooth Barite Rooted extremely huge molar specimen

Rooted extremely huge molar specimen

but later Perner (1919) suggested a marrellomorph affinity for the fossils

Beautiful plaque containing the remains of many stems of this species of moroccan crinoid (Scyphocrinites)

a view also followed by Chlupáč (1999a

†Platyscutellum sp

21015 - Top Rare 2.31 Inch Pappocetus lugardi (Whale Ancestor) Molar Rooted Tooth Barite Rooted extremely huge molar specimenPappocetus 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