07099 - Top Rare 2.94 Inch Pappocetus lugardi (Whale Ancestor) Molar Rooted Tooth Schizorhiza Beautiful plaque containing the remains

Beautiful plaque containing the remains of many stems of this species of moroccan crinoid (Scyphocrinites)

It is a magnificent example of the Moroccan Cyphaspis

but its fossilization is tremendously beautiful too

Beautiful rostral tooth of this species of sawfish (Schizorhiza) of the Upper Cretaceous

Dortangs et al

07099 - Top Rare 2.94 Inch Pappocetus lugardi (Whale Ancestor) Molar Rooted Tooth Schizorhiza Beautiful plaque containing the remainsPappocetus 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