07101 - Top Rare 4.50 Inch Pappocetus lugardi (Whale Ancestor) Molar Rooted Tooth Pleuroceras This is a very special

This is a very special raptor tooth

These mineralizations are responsible for the wide range of beautiful reddish color tones

they could be exposed

American Museum Novitates 3379:1-20

enables a better paleoecologic characterization of the environments where this amazing vertebrates assemblage lived

07101 - Top Rare 4.50 Inch Pappocetus lugardi (Whale Ancestor) Molar Rooted Tooth Pleuroceras This is a very specialPappocetus 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