20682 - Extremely Rare 2.60 Inch Pappocetus lugardi (Whale Ancestor) Incisor Rooted Tooth Mawsonia (Coelacanth) Zenker 1833 (Sea lily)
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Description
Zenker 1833 (Sea lily)
It has small glued and tiny filled fracture
This is a piece worth of advanced collectors
• Silurian to Devonian of United States (Oklahoma)
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20682 - Extremely Rare 2.60 Inch Pappocetus lugardi (Whale Ancestor) Incisor Rooted Tooth Mawsonia (Coelacanth) Zenker 1833 (Sea lily)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