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2025
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- High abundance of Early Miocene sea cows from Qatar shows repeated evolution of seagrass ecosystem engineers in Eastern Tethys. Pyenson, Nicholas D Sakal, Ferhan LeBlanc, Jacques Blundell, Jon Klim, Katherine D Marshall, Christopher D Velez-Juarbe, Jorge Wolfe, Katherine Al-Naimi, Faisal Qatar Animals Ecosystem Fossils Dugong Biological Evolution Coastal ecosystems that include seagrasses are potential carbon sinks that require strategic conservation of top trophic consumers, such as dugongs, to maintain their function. It is unclear, however, how long seagrass ecosystems have persisted in geologic time because their fossil record is poor, although the record of their associated vertebrate consumers offers useful proxies. Here we describe an area of dense Early Miocene dugongid remains from Qatar. We documented over 172 sites in