''Anomotherium'' is an extinct genus of
manatee
Manatees (, family (biology), family Trichechidae, genus ''Trichechus'') are large, fully aquatic, mostly herbivory, herbivorous marine mammals sometimes known as sea cows. There are three accepted living species of Trichechidae, representing t ...
that lived in the shallow seas of what is now
Northern Germany
Northern Germany (, ) is a linguistic, geographic, socio-cultural and historic region in the northern part of Germany which includes the coastal states of Schleswig-Holstein, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and Lower Saxony and the two city-states Hambur ...
. Its closest relative is ''
Miosiren''. Fossils of the genus have been found in the
Bohlen and
Doberg Formations of Germany.
Ecology
Like extant sirenians, ''Anomotherium'' was probably capable of feeding upon seagrasses, brown algae, and mollusks on the shallow seabed.
See also
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Evolution of sirenians
Sirenia is the order (biology), order of Eutheria, placental mammals which comprises modern "sea cows" (manatees and the Dugong) and their extinct relatives. They are the only extant herbivorous marine mammals and the only group of herbivorous ...
References
Trichechidae
Oligocene sirenians
Chattian life
Rupelian life
Oligocene mammals of Europe
Oligocene Germany
Fossils of Germany
Fossil taxa described in 1965
Prehistoric placental genera
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