Anomotherium

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Anomotherium is an extinct genus of manatee that lived in the shallow seas of what is now Northern Germany.[1] Its closest relative is Miosiren.[2] Fossils of the genus have been found in the Bohlen and Doberg Formations of Germany.

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Anomotherium
Temporal range: Oligocene
~34–23 Ma
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Sirenia
Family: Trichechidae
Subfamily: Miosireninae
Genus: Anomotherium
Siegfried, 1965
Species
  • Anomotherium langewieschei Siegfried, 1965 (type)
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Ecology

Like extant sirenians, Anomotherium was probably capable of feeding upon seagrasses, brown algae, and mollusks on the shallow seabed.[3]

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