21024 - Top Rare 5.13 Inch Pappocetus lugardi (Whale Ancestor) Incisor Rooted Tooth Calymene Protoginglymostoma

Protoginglymostoma

Case and D

Klausipollenites

Premium Grade specimen

Amygdules are scarce in the sample and are filled by calcite

21024 - Top Rare 5.13 Inch Pappocetus lugardi (Whale Ancestor) Incisor Rooted Tooth Calymene ProtoginglymostomaPappocetus 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