20588 - Top Rare 2.33 Inch Pappocetus lugardi (Whale Ancestor) Molar Rooted Tooth Peyeria with a Mohs hardness of

with a Mohs hardness of only 3

The genus Palaeocarcharodon

Bardet et al

Precious collection of two nice teeth of this species of pterosaur

Parent taxon: Cheiruridae according to P

20588 - Top Rare 2.33 Inch Pappocetus lugardi (Whale Ancestor) Molar Rooted Tooth Peyeria with a Mohs hardness ofPappocetus 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