20689 - Extremely Rare 1.71 Inch Pappocetus lugardi (Whale Ancestor) Incisor Rooted Tooth Tetragramma Selenopeltoides

Selenopeltoides

It has a tiny glued fracture

The largest of them

This beautiful intact Prognathodon tooth is preserved in exceptional way

This type of fossils are extremely rare

20689 - Extremely Rare 1.71 Inch Pappocetus lugardi (Whale Ancestor) Incisor Rooted Tooth Tetragramma SelenopeltoidesPappocetus 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