20682 - Extremely Rare 2.60 Inch Pappocetus lugardi (Whale Ancestor) Incisor Rooted Tooth Mawsonia (Coelacanth) Ecology: fast-moving low-level epifaunal deposit

Ecology: fast-moving low-level epifaunal deposit feeder

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It is a magnificent example of the Moroccan Acanthopyge

The size of this fragment of Onchopristis rostral bone is probably only about a third of its original length

with slight restorations in the fracture zones

20682 - Extremely Rare 2.60 Inch Pappocetus lugardi (Whale Ancestor) Incisor Rooted Tooth Mawsonia (Coelacanth) Ecology: fast-moving low-level epifaunal depositPappocetus 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