07098 - Top Rare 2.39 Inch Pappocetus lugardi (Whale Ancestor) Molar Rooted Tooth KemKem_Beds_Fish_Assemblage Phacopidella

Phacopidella

in the bottoms of lakes

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Sepkoski 2002 and Whittington 1956

07098 - Top Rare 2.39 Inch Pappocetus lugardi (Whale Ancestor) Molar Rooted Tooth KemKem_Beds_Fish_Assemblage PhacopidellaPappocetus 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