21025 - Top Rare 4.94 Inch Pappocetus lugardi (Whale Ancestor) Incisor Rooted Tooth Eocene Coelacanth the turtle rests in these

the turtle rests in these sites are scarce and rare

a view also followed by Chlupáč (1999a

Precious tooth of Platecarpus sp (Mosasaur) from the phosphate deposits of the Ouled Abdoun Basin (Morocco)

Class: Iron

21025 - Top Rare 4.94 Inch Pappocetus lugardi (Whale Ancestor) Incisor Rooted Tooth Eocene Coelacanth the turtle rests in thesePappocetus 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