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Scientific name: Basilosaurus sp - Probably Pappocetus lugardi, Andrews 1920 (whale ancestor)

Location: Dakhla, Western Sahara, South Morocco

Geological Formation:  Boujdour Basin, Middle-Late Eocene Phosphate Outcrops

Age: Middle - Late Eocene, Bartonian stage (~40 Million Years)

Size (long): 5,8 cm

REF.: 20245

DESCRIPTION: 
Pappocetus 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.

Observations: Rooted molar specimen. It has some glued and tiny filled fractures, as well as stabilization with some products to make it more stable. Even so, it is a spectacular and rare tooth.

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Middle - Late Eocene, Bartonian stage (~40 Million Years)

Outstanding Huge Basilosaurus (Whale Ancestor) Molar Rooted Tooth - Fossil tooth

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Cretaceous, Upper (100.5 - 66 million years)

Cretaceous (145 - 66 million years)

Devonian (419.2 - 358.9 million years)

Neogene (23.03 - 2.58 million years)

Paleogene, Eocene (56 - 33.9 million years)

Neogene, Miocene (23.03 - 5.33 million years)

Cretaceous, Lower (145 - 100.5 million years)

Quaternary, Pleistocene (2.58 - 0.0117 million years)

Triassic (251.9 - 201.3 million years)

Devonian, Middle (393.3 - 382.7 million years)

Jurassic (201.3 - 145 million years)

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Ordovician (485.4 - 443.8 million years)

Jurassic, Lower (201.3 - 174.1 million years)

Carboniferous, Pennsylvanian (323.2 - 298.9 million years)

Triassic, Lower (251.9 - 247.2 million years)

Triassic, Middle (247.2 - 237 million years)

Cambrian (541 - 485.4 million years)

Carboniferous (358.9 - 298.9 million years)

Paleogene, Paleocene (66 - 56 million years)

Jurassic, Middle (174.1 - 163.5 million years)

Neogene, Pliocene (5.33 - 2.58 million years)

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Devonian, Lower (419.2 - 393.3 million years)

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