Family Trichechidae Phylum Chordata Order Manatee | Subfamily Miosireninae Rank Genus | |
Similar Manatee, Eosiren, Prototherium, Rytiodus, Prorastomidae | ||
Anomotherium is an extinct genus of manatee that lived in the shallow seas of what is now northern Germany. Its closest relative is Miosiren.
Ecology
Like extant sirenians, Anomotherium was probably capable of feeding upon seagrasses, brown algae, and mollusks on the shallow seabead.
References
Anomotherium Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA