21031 - Top Rare 2.02 Inch Pappocetus lugardi (Whale Ancestor) Incisor Rooted Tooth Eocene Miscellaneous echinoderms Theagarten &

Theagarten &

Impressive Megalodon tooth

40 in) It has a series of fractures which have been restored via the filling method

Synonym: Acrodobatis Leidy 1877 (taxon 124936)

Composed largely of spherical grain-like silicate chondrules

21031 - Top Rare 2.02 Inch Pappocetus lugardi (Whale Ancestor) Incisor Rooted Tooth Eocene Miscellaneous echinoderms Theagarten &Pappocetus 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