Borissiakia
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| Borissiakia Temporal range: | |
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| Mounted skeleton (top) and life restoration (bottom) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| 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 | |
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]
