20582 - Top Rare 2.81 Inch Pappocetus lugardi (Whale Ancestor) Molar Rooted Tooth Pterosaur Fiorelli and Calvo 2008
Yard notes & kiln story
Description
Fiorelli and Calvo 2008
Ecology: fast-moving low-level epifaunal carnivore
Beautiful cranial dermal scute plate of an indeterminate crocodile from the Upper Cretaceous
sedimentology
among several fragments of dermal scute bones
20582 - Top Rare 2.81 Inch Pappocetus lugardi (Whale Ancestor) Molar Rooted Tooth Pterosaur Fiorelli and Calvo 2008Pappocetus 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