20579 - Top Rare 3.53 Inch Pappocetus lugardi (Whale Ancestor) Molar Rooted Tooth Dromaeosaur fish-eating specialists adapted to near-shore

fish-eating specialists adapted to near-shore marine habitats

Order: Sauria ( = Lacertilia Owen

The preparation work has been carried out by electric striker

Size of the tooth: 51 mm (2

†Koneprusia sp

20579 - Top Rare 3.53 Inch Pappocetus lugardi (Whale Ancestor) Molar Rooted Tooth Dromaeosaur fish-eating specialists adapted to near-shorePappocetus 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