20588 - Top Rare 2.33 Inch Pappocetus lugardi (Whale Ancestor) Molar Rooted Tooth Peyeria Bardet et al

Bardet et al

Meteoritical Bulletin Database: Taza NWA 859

The genus Palaeocarcharodon

with a Mohs hardness of only 3

Impressive natural association with one specimen of the genus Acanthopyge and other specimen of the genus Phacops

20588 - Top Rare 2.33 Inch Pappocetus lugardi (Whale Ancestor) Molar Rooted Tooth Peyeria Bardet et alPappocetus 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