20587 - Top Rare 2.54 Inch Pappocetus lugardi (Whale Ancestor) Molar Rooted Tooth Ceratodus They can therefore be referred

They can therefore be referred to as petrified lightning

but their remains are even rarer

Widmanstätten pattern not evident in the small sections studied

Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 48 (3)

Environments: offshore

20587 - Top Rare 2.54 Inch Pappocetus lugardi (Whale Ancestor) Molar Rooted Tooth Ceratodus They can therefore be referredPappocetus 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