Note: This historical image is not a factually accurate paleontological restoration. Reason: front limbs pointing the wrong way, the hand bones were lost but have been reconstructed here. You may ask further questions about the accuracy of this image at the image review page of Wikiproject Palaeontology on the English Wikipedia. Note that this image may be appropriate to illustrate obsolete paleontological views. Description: English: Hydrodamalis gigas skeleton, Muséum national d'histoire naturelle, Paris. Español: Esqueleto de una vaca marina de Steller (Hydrodamalis gigas), Galería de Paleontología y de Anatomía Comparada, en París, Francia. Date: 2008. Source: Own work. Author: FunkMonk.
Steller's sea cow from Extinct ad Vanishing Mammals of the Western Hemisphere, Glover M. Allen. Steller's sea cow sketch and palate, from Symbolae Sirenologicae, drawng by J.F. Brandt.