20582 - Top Rare 2.81 Inch Pappocetus lugardi (Whale Ancestor) Molar Rooted Tooth Pterosaur Beautiful cranial dermal scute plate

Beautiful cranial dermal scute plate of an indeterminate crocodile from the Upper Cretaceous

among several fragments of dermal scute bones

Fiorelli and Calvo 2008

Extremely rare piece corresponding to a complete and perfect claw

20582 - Top Rare 2.81 Inch Pappocetus lugardi (Whale Ancestor) Molar Rooted Tooth Pterosaur Beautiful cranial dermal scute platePappocetus 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