21004 - Top Rare 7.28 Inch Partial Pappocetus lugardi (Whale Ancestor) Jaw Bone Eocene Ectillaenus Finest Grade specimen

Finest Grade specimen

External nares extend from 6th to 12th maxillary teeth

which is in a Cenomanian terrestrial claystone in the Ifezouane Formation of Morocco

Class : Reptilia Linnaeus

Mosasauridae Gervais

21004 - Top Rare 7.28 Inch Partial Pappocetus lugardi (Whale Ancestor) Jaw Bone Eocene Ectillaenus Finest Grade specimenPappocetus 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