07098 - Top Rare 2.39 Inch Pappocetus lugardi (Whale Ancestor) Molar Rooted Tooth KemKem_Beds_Fish_Assemblage It has tiny restorations made

It has tiny restorations made on its shell during its meticulous and long preparation

It perfectly reflects the gigantic magnitude of the jagged snout of this Cretaceous sawfish

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Mosasaurinae Gervais

The rostral barbs of this enormous sawfish are relatively common in the Cretaceous quarries in the South of Morocco

07098 - Top Rare 2.39 Inch Pappocetus lugardi (Whale Ancestor) Molar Rooted Tooth KemKem_Beds_Fish_Assemblage It has tiny restorations madePappocetus 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