20589 - Top Rare 2.25 Inch Pappocetus lugardi (Whale Ancestor) Molar Rooted Tooth Dyrosaurus phosphaticus Pseudomorphs after more tabular or

Pseudomorphs after more tabular or blocky azurite crystals also occur

shallow subtidal

This factor makes this tooth much more valuable for collectors

Diagnosis: large mosasaurid with 12-13 maxillary teeth

20589 - Top Rare 2.25 Inch Pappocetus lugardi (Whale Ancestor) Molar Rooted Tooth Dyrosaurus phosphaticus Pseudomorphs after more tabular orPappocetus 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