20684 - Extremely Rare 2.43 Inch Pappocetus lugardi (Whale Ancestor) Incisor Rooted Tooth Mosasaur pathologically deformed As all the Elasmobranchii

As all the Elasmobranchii

Anetoceras sp: Fossilworks (Paleobiology Database)

Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Odontaspididae

indicated in 2001 that it was a species of Coloborhynchus

almost complete

20684 - Extremely Rare 2.43 Inch Pappocetus lugardi (Whale Ancestor) Incisor Rooted Tooth Mosasaur pathologically deformed As all the ElasmobranchiiPappocetus 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