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Borissiakia
Extinct genus of herbivorous odd-toed ungulates / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Borissiakia is an extinct genus of chalicothere, a group of herbivorous, odd-toed ungulate (perissodactyl) mammals, that lived during the late Oligocene in Kazakhstan. They had claws that were likely used in a hook-like manner to pull down branches, suggesting they lived as bipedal browsers.[1]
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Perissodactyla |
Family: | †Chalicotheriidae |
Subfamily: | †Schizotheriinae |
Genus: | †Borissiakia Butler, 1965 |
Type species | |
†Borissiakia betpakdalensis originally Moropus betpakdalensis Flerov, 1938 |
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