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English: Skeletal drawing of Eotheroides, a basal dugongid from the Eocene period, Egypt. Except being much smaller (about 2 meters long) and possessing relatively larger hip bones (with a small femur) than the extant dugong (Dugong dugon), Eotheroides closely resembled the extant member of its family, and probably lived in a similar manner. This skeletal drawing is based on measurements and photos of the specimens UM 111558 and UM 97514 (both attributed to the species E. sandersi).[1]
The state of the hind limb elements are speculative: at present, only the innominates and femora are known. Based on its morphology, it has been concluded that lower leg elements would have been “very reduced if present at all”.[1] The first version of this file depicted the skeleton with external hind limbs with lower leg and metatarsals, but it has also been argued that Eotheroides, like modern dugongids, "lack[ed] external hind limbs".[2] the present version are drawn to represent this. The femur pointing backward is inspired from the skeletal drawing of "Halitherium published by Voss.[3] References
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