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foreshore (1)
External nares extend from 6th to 12th maxillary teeth
Finest Grade specimen
This is a small rarity coming from the Paleogene phosphate quarries of the sedimentarian basin of Oulad Abdoun (Morocco)
PaleoDB taxon number: 125728
21004 - Top Rare 7.28 Inch Partial Pappocetus lugardi (Whale Ancestor) Jaw Bone Eocene Ectillaenus foreshore (1)Pappocetus 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