07096 - Top Rare 2.02 Inch Pappocetus lugardi (Whale Ancestor) Molar Rooted Tooth Reptiles - Museum Grade but to a reptile such

but to a reptile such as a crocodile or a turtle

Beautiful preserved specimen

the teeth that are extracted from the depth of the mines are usually much better preserved

Specifically this specimen comes from the Hell Creek Formation

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07096 - Top Rare 2.02 Inch Pappocetus lugardi (Whale Ancestor) Molar Rooted Tooth Reptiles - Museum Grade but to a reptile suchPappocetus 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