Anomotherium langewieschei Siegfried 1965 (manatee)

Mammalia - Sirenia - Trichechidae

Full reference: P. Siegfried. 1965. Anomotherium langewieschei n.g. n. sp. (Sirenia) aus dem Ober-Oligozan des Dobergs bei Bunde/Westfalen. Sonder-Abdruck aus Palaeontolographica 124(4-6):116-150

Belongs to Anomotherium according to M. Voss 2014

See also Domning 1994, Domning 1996 and Siegfried 1965

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: A575, a partial skeleton. Its type locality is Doberg bei Bünde, which is in a Chattian marine mixed carbonate-siliciclastic in the Doberg Formation of Germany.

Ecology: aquatic herbivore

Distribution:

• Oligocene of Germany (4 collections)

Total: 4 collections each including a single occurrence

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