07103 - Extremely Rare 2.57 Inch Pappocetus lugardi (Whale Ancestor) Incisor Rooted Tooth in Jaw Bone Mosasaur paddle bones Squamata Oppel

Squamata Oppel

Parent taxon: Odontopleurinae according to D

This specimen has been carefully prepared and extracted from its natural limestone rock

Burmeisterella

In these sites there are numerous different species of Mosasaurus described in the enormous assemblage of giant marine reptiles that reigned the seas during the Cretaceous

07103 - Extremely Rare 2.57 Inch Pappocetus lugardi (Whale Ancestor) Incisor Rooted Tooth in Jaw Bone Mosasaur paddle bones Squamata OppelPappocetus 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