20577 - Top Rare 6.34 Inch Pappocetus lugardi (Whale Ancestor) Molar Rooted Tooth Eodiaphyodus suggests that it belonged to

suggests that it belonged to the Elosuchus genus

Nice and big specimen

Platyscutellum

Adrain and G

Bulletin 23:1–241

20577 - Top Rare 6.34 Inch Pappocetus lugardi (Whale Ancestor) Molar Rooted Tooth Eodiaphyodus suggests that it belonged toPappocetus 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