07105 - Extremely Rare 4.89 Inch Pappocetus lugardi (Whale Ancestor) Incisor Rooted Tooth in Jaw Bone Concavotectum It is a very rare

It is a very rare piece

It has an exceptional conservation

Mineralogy and textural properties of samples were studied on polished thin sections using transmitted and reflected light microscopy at LPA (UA) and UGR

Despite the amount of teeth of this genus than have been discovered

Squamata Oppel

07105 - Extremely Rare 4.89 Inch Pappocetus lugardi (Whale Ancestor) Incisor Rooted Tooth in Jaw Bone Concavotectum It is a very rarePappocetus 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