Halitherium

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Translingual

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Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἅλς (háls, salt; sea) + -therium.

Proper noun

Halitherium

  1. A taxonomic genus within the family Dugongidae – an extinct dugongid sea cow that arose in the late Eocene, then became extinct during the early Oligocene.