21013 - Top Rare 2.57 Inch Pappocetus lugardi (Whale Ancestor) Molar Rooted Tooth Notinodon Russell 1996

Russell 1996

has been prepared as free-standing on the matrix

Parent taxon: Enchodontidae according to C

Beautiful piece of Baltic amber with an inclusion of a fossil Caddisfly

Top beautiful specimen

21013 - Top Rare 2.57 Inch Pappocetus lugardi (Whale Ancestor) Molar Rooted Tooth Notinodon Russell 1996Pappocetus 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