T58 - Rare Huge 4.44 Inch Basilosaurus (Whale Ancestor) Molar Rooted Tooth Lepidotes scales Schultz 1974

Schultz 1974

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From this type of fossilization

WEIGHT 5670 g

but the alveoli where they were located

T58 - Rare Huge 4.44 Inch Basilosaurus (Whale Ancestor) Molar Rooted Tooth Lepidotes scales Schultz 1974Scientific name: Basilosaurus sp Probably Pappocetus lugardi, Andrews 1920 (whale ancestor) Location: Dakhla, Western Sahara, South Morocco Geological Formation: Boujdour Basin, Middle Late Eocene Phosphate Outcrops Age: Middle Late Eocene, Bartonian stage (~40 Million Years) Size (long): 11. 3cm = 4. 44Inch REF.: T58 DESCRIPTION: Pappocetus is a protocetid and a large amphibious aquatic carnivore. Pappocetus is also an ancestor of Basilosaurus. Rare