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Moeritherium

author: Raul Lunia/Novapix

reference: t-din05-30203

Image Size 300 DPI: 11 * 7 cm

Moeritherium is related to the elephant and more distantly the sea cow. It lived during the Eocene epoch (about 37-35 million years ago), remains found from Egypt. Animal length was about 3 meters (9.8 ft). Moeritherium was not an ancestor of modern elephants and died out, leaving no descendants.

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2012 - ANIMAL - CENOZOIC - EARTH - EOCENE - FAUNA - HISTORY OF EARTH - ILLUSTRATION - MAMMAL - MOERITHERIUM -