Borophagina
Sign in to saveBorophagina is a subtribe of the Borophaginae, a group of extinct canids. They inhabited much of North America from the Early Miocene to the Zanclean stage of the Pliocene, 20.6—3.6 Mya, and existed for approximately .
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It sits within the topics Animal subtribes, Borophagines and Zanclean extinctions.
Its subject is documented across 5 Wikipedia language editions.
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Borophagina is a subtribe of the Borophaginae, a group of extinct canids. They inhabited much of North America from the Early Miocene to the Zanclean stage of the Pliocene, 20.6—3.6 Mya, and existed for approximately .
Like some other borophagines, they were short-faced, heavy-jawed canids although the group included both omnivorous and hypercarnivorous species.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Borophagina” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.