21016 - Top Huge 5.92 Inch Pappocetus lugardi (Whale Ancestor) Incisor Rooted Tooth Calamopleurus In the following table the

In the following table the mineral formulae was calculate to 7 oxygens using semi-quantitative results from EDS analysis

Vanadinite is a mineral belonging to the apatite group of phosphates

In the international market is very common to find Mosasaurus rests coming from the phosphate quarries of the Upper Cretaceous of the Ouled Abdoun Basin (Morocco)

Museum grade natural association

Sertich and O'Connor 2014 and Zaher et al

21016 - Top Huge 5.92 Inch Pappocetus lugardi (Whale Ancestor) Incisor Rooted Tooth Calamopleurus In the following table thePappocetus 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