21005 - Top Huge 6.22 Inch Pappocetus lugardi (Whale Ancestor) Molar Rooted Tooth Eocene Echinoderms It has some glued fractures
Baker’s notes & crumb story
Description
It has some glued fractures but no restoration or fabrication
Are unique pieces that were discovered together
Beautiful association of Eremiasaurus tooth + unidentified bone in its natural matrix
No doubt this is a piece worthy of study
southern Morocco
21005 - Top Huge 6.22 Inch Pappocetus lugardi (Whale Ancestor) Molar Rooted Tooth Eocene Echinoderms It has some glued fracturesPappocetus 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