20589 - Top Rare 2.25 Inch Pappocetus lugardi (Whale Ancestor) Molar Rooted Tooth Dyrosaurus phosphaticus Eocrinoidea - Ascocystitida

Eocrinoidea - Ascocystitida

Diagnosis: large mosasaurid with 12-13 maxillary teeth

This factor makes this tooth much more valuable for collectors

shallow subtidal

20589 - Top Rare 2.25 Inch Pappocetus lugardi (Whale Ancestor) Molar Rooted Tooth Dyrosaurus phosphaticus Eocrinoidea - AscocystitidaPappocetus 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