20680 - Extremely Rare 3.15 Inch Pappocetus lugardi (Whale Ancestor) Incisor Rooted Tooth Fish teeth bulk Pseudostygina

Pseudostygina

Ulna and one phalanx can be recognized

with remarks on African Caudata" Tannina Alloul et al

fluorite is used as a flux for smelting

Nicely well preserved and prepared specimen

20680 - Extremely Rare 3.15 Inch Pappocetus lugardi (Whale Ancestor) Incisor Rooted Tooth Fish teeth bulk PseudostyginaPappocetus 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