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İ found this fosiil at Anatolia which is under Myocene once upon a time. Can it be Sea cow ,the area fosiils age between 5-23 million years ago. WhatsApp Video 2024-04-25 at 14.37.36.mp4

In case anyone hasn't noticed, Sevim-Erol et al. (2023) erect the new genus Anadoluvius for the extinct great ape Ouranopithecus turkae from the late Miocene of central Anatolia in Türkiye based on newly discovered cranial remains for that taxon. I remember that Graecopithecus and Ouranopithecus are significant for documenting the presence of Miocene apes from the southernmost Balkans because the country in which they were found is famous for its ancient temples and deities and for beng considered the birthplace of Western civilization and philosophy, but the hominine placement of Anadoluvius and Ouranopithecus in sharp contrast to Ankarapithecus being a pongine hominid demonstrates that the two extant hominid clades spread to central Anatolia by late Miocene after island hopping across southern Europe from Africa, given that Chororapithecus has been classified as an extinct gorilla. Sevim-Erol, A., Begun, D. R., Sönmez Sözer, Ç., Mayda, S., van den Hoek Ostende, L. W., Martin, R. M. G., and Cihat Alçiçek, M., 2023. A new ape from Türkiye and the radiation of late Miocene hominines. Communications Biology 6 (1): 1–10. doi:10.1038/s42003-023-05210-5.

Hi friends. New fossil in the interior of Turkey. What do you think?

Balkanatolia: the forgotten continent that sheds light on the evolution of mammals, CNRS News, February 22, 2022 Balkanatolia: the forgotten continent that sheds light on evolution of mammals. UPI, February 22, 2022 Scientists Discover the Long-Lost Continent ‘Balkanatolia’ The landmass existed 40 million years ago and may have facilitated the migration of Asian mammals into Europe. Becky Ferreira, Vice, February 23, 2022 the paper is: Licht, A., Métais, G., Coster, P., Ibilioğlu, D., Ocakoğlu, F., Westerweel, J., Mueller, M., Campbell, C., Mattingly, S., Wood, M.C. and Beard, K.C., 2022. Balkanatolia: The insular mammalian biogeographic province that partly paved the way to the Grande Coupure. Earth-Science Reviews, no.103929. From abstract: “The Grande Coupure corresponds to a major episode of faunal turnover in western Europe around the Eocene- Oligocene boundary that is generally attributed to the influx of multiple clades of Asian mammals. Yours, Paul H.