20581 - Top Rare 3.19 Inch Pappocetus lugardi (Whale Ancestor) Molar Rooted Tooth Hexanchus This restoration method used by

This restoration method used by local miners consists in the colmatage of the fractures with a mix of glued sand of the same stratigraphic level where the fossil has been excavated

This enormous Prognathodon jaw is preserved in exceptional way

— Les vertébrés fossiles des gisements de phosphates (Maroc – Algérie – Tunisie)

They only have some fractures that have been glued and slightly filled

20581 - Top Rare 3.19 Inch Pappocetus lugardi (Whale Ancestor) Molar Rooted Tooth Hexanchus This restoration method used byPappocetus 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