21012 - Top Rare 2.81 Inch Pappocetus lugardi (Whale Ancestor) Molar Rooted Tooth Unidentified Reptiles Vertebrae Bones Squamata Oppel 1811

Squamata Oppel 1811

It is the complete skull of this unique species of marine crocodile

72 and moderate Al = 0

It has small filled sector inside one of the fractures

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21012 - Top Rare 2.81 Inch Pappocetus lugardi (Whale Ancestor) Molar Rooted Tooth Unidentified Reptiles Vertebrae Bones Squamata Oppel 1811Pappocetus 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