21023 - Top Rare 5.16 Inch Pappocetus lugardi (Whale Ancestor) Incisor Rooted Tooth Tooth PaleoDB taxon number: 125733

PaleoDB taxon number: 125733

The appendages show similarities to

78 apfu (atoms per formula unit)

MetBase: v

Ebach and Ahyong 2001

21023 - Top Rare 5.16 Inch Pappocetus lugardi (Whale Ancestor) Incisor Rooted Tooth Tooth PaleoDB taxon number: 125733Pappocetus 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