20675 - Extremely Rare 5.35 Inch Pappocetus lugardi (Whale Ancestor) Incisor Rooted Tooth NWA Chondrite Polished Sections Until 2011

Until 2011

Size of the tooth: 51 mm (2

we can observe a fly (Diptera - Sciaridae Family)

Precious association of 2 teeth in matrix of Cretolamna maroccana (Mackerel Shark) and Enchodus sp from the phosphate deposits of the Ouled Abdoun Basin (Morocco)

Mammals during the Mesozoic era were extremely rare although they had representation within the ecosystems in which dinosaurs reigned

20675 - Extremely Rare 5.35 Inch Pappocetus lugardi (Whale Ancestor) Incisor Rooted Tooth NWA Chondrite Polished Sections Until 2011Pappocetus 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