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.
| Anomotherium Temporal range: Oligocene ~ | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Sirenia |
| Family: | Trichechidae |
| Subfamily: | †Miosireninae |
| Genus: | †Anomotherium Siegfried, 1965 |
| Species | |
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Ecology
Like extant sirenians, Anomotherium was probably capable of feeding upon seagrasses, brown algae, and mollusks on the shallow seabead.[3]
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