20582 - Top Rare 2.81 Inch Pappocetus lugardi (Whale Ancestor) Molar Rooted Tooth Pterosaur It does not have restorations

It does not have restorations or repairs

In: Revista Mexicana de Ciencas Geológicas Vol

Fiorelli and Calvo 2008

sedimentology

and/or fused soil

20582 - Top Rare 2.81 Inch Pappocetus lugardi (Whale Ancestor) Molar Rooted Tooth Pterosaur It does not have restorationsPappocetus 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