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
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 seabed.^[3]

See also

• Evolution of sirenians