21026 - Top Huge 5.16 Inch Pappocetus lugardi (Whale Ancestor) Incisor Rooted Tooth Eocene Carcharodontosaurus Rare symphyseal tooth

Rare symphyseal tooth

With preparation work with a micro-jack-hammer in the lab

Widmanstätten pattern not evident in the small sections studied

Symphysops sp: Fossilworks (Paleobiology Database)

Parent taxon: Homalonotidae according to P

21026 - Top Huge 5.16 Inch Pappocetus lugardi (Whale Ancestor) Incisor Rooted Tooth Eocene Carcharodontosaurus Rare symphyseal toothPappocetus 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