21019 - Top Huge 6.26 Inch Pappocetus lugardi (Whale Ancestor) Incisor Rooted Tooth Silicified Pine Cones Enchodus petrosus

Enchodus petrosus

the pleochroic colors being usually green

The bone rests from the sites in the south of Morocco are very scarce and valuable because of many reasons

This beautiful intact Prognathodon tooth is preserved in exceptional way

Nat Hist Museum Maastricht

21019 - Top Huge 6.26 Inch Pappocetus lugardi (Whale Ancestor) Incisor Rooted Tooth Silicified Pine Cones Enchodus petrosusPappocetus 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