Moeritherium is a distant relative to modern day elephants and lived during the Eocene and Oligocene of (mainly) Northern Africa. They resembled a small, elongated hippopotamus with pig and tapir-like features. They only stood 70 cm high at the shoulders and probably did not have a trunk. Instead, it is believed that it had a very muscular upper lip. Moeritherium lived in freshwater swamps and rivers were it fed on soft aquatic plants.