21026 - Top Huge 5.16 Inch Pappocetus lugardi (Whale Ancestor) Incisor Rooted Tooth Eocene Carcharodontosaurus Parent taxon: Homalonotidae according to

Parent taxon: Homalonotidae according to P

Nice right maxillary fragment

Widmanstätten pattern not evident in the small sections studied

terrestrial (20)

and a large

21026 - Top Huge 5.16 Inch Pappocetus lugardi (Whale Ancestor) Incisor Rooted Tooth Eocene Carcharodontosaurus Parent taxon: Homalonotidae according toPappocetus 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