Anomotherium

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 ~34–23 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
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)

Ecology

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

See also

• Evolution of sirenians

References

1. "Fossilworks: Anomotherium".
2. Voss, M. (2014). "On the invalidity of Halitherium schinzii Kaup, 1838 (Mammalia, Sirenia), with comments on systematic consequences". Zoosystematics and Evolution. 90 (1): 87–93. doi:10.3897/zse.90.7421.
3. Diedrich, C (2008). "The food of the miosiren Anomotherium langenwieschei (Siegfried)—Indirect proof of seaweed or seagrass by xenomorphic oyster fixation structures in the Upper Oligocene (Neogene) of the Doberg, Bünde (NW Germany) and comparisons to modern Dugong dugon (Müller) feeding strategies". Senckenbergiana Maritima. 38: 59–73. doi:10.1007/BF03043869. S2CID 19048108.