Illustration and photo-reconstruction of Paleoparadoxia tabatai. Paleoparadoxia is a genus of large herbivorous aquatic mammals that inhabited the northern Pacific coastal region during the Miocene epoch (20 to 10 million years ago). It ranged from the waters of Japan to Alaska in the north, and Baja California, Mexico in the south. Paleoparadoxia was about 2.2 m long. it is thought to have fed primarily on seaweeds and sea grasses. Its bulky body was well adapted for swimming and underwater foraging, but not for extended deep-sea living or deep diving. Originally interpreted as amphibious, Paleoparadoxia is now thought to have been a fully marine mammal like their living relatives, the sirenians, spending most of their lives walking across the sea bottom like marine hippos. | |
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