Borhyaenidae

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title: Borhyaenidae
text: Borhyaenidae is an extinct metatherian family of low-slung, heavily built predatory mammals in the order Sparassodonta. Borhyaenids are not true marsupials, but members of a sister taxon, Sparassodonta. Like most metatherians, borhyaenids and other sparassodonts are thought to have had a pouch to carry their offspring around. Borhyaenids had strong and powerful jaws, like those of the unrelated placentalians Hyaenodon and Andrewsarchus, for crushing bones. Borhyaenids grew up to an average of 5
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description: Extinct family of mammals
original url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borhyaenidae
date created: 2006-07-05T00:21:42Z
date modified: 2024-09-05T14:28:18Z
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image: {"content_url":"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b4/Borhyaena_tuberata.JPG","width":1349,"height":751}
fields total: 13
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