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bone-crushing dog

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  1. Any of a subfamily (Borophaginae) of large extinct canids of North America, noted for…

    Any of a subfamily (Borophaginae) of large extinct canids of North America, noted for powerful teeth and jaws.

    • Carnivore damage and age distribution of the bones of the rhinoceros Teleoceras suggest that the bone-crushing dog Osteoborus, or a related carnivore, significantly influenced the accumulation of some of the vertebrate fossils.
    • He also saw many bone splinters which appeared to have been worked by humans. (We now know that they were fractured by an extinct family of bone-crushing dogs)
    • Bone-crushing dogs, which are only distantly related to living wolves and coyotes, possessed heavy skulls and jaws and large, broad teeth.

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