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Plant fossil: Pecopteris Fern - 300 million years old -...
Plant fossil: Pecopteris Fern - 300 million years old
From the Carboniferous of Lorraine
Fossil tooth of Basilosaurus - from Morocco (Dakhla)
Priabonian (Eocene) time period, approximately 37.8 to 33.9 million years ago
Fossil tooth of Basilosaurus - from Morocco (Dakhla)
Priabonian (Eocene) time period, approximately 37.8 to 33.9 million years ago
Name: Basilosaurus (King Lizard), also called Zeuglodon, was an extinct genus of archaic, carnivorous cetaceans. Considered an ancestor of modern whales.
Age: Miocene (23 to 5.3 million years ago)
Provenance: Sardinia
The tooth is about 15cm long - Weight: 1322g
The tip has been restored