| Borissiakia | |
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| A life restoration of Borissiakia | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Perissodactyla |
| Superfamily: | †Chalicotherioidea |
| Family: | †Chalicotheriidae |
| Subfamily: | †Schizotheriinae |
| Genus: | †Borissiakia Borissiak, 1946 |
Borissiakia is an extinct genus of chalicothere, a group of herbivorous odd-toed ungulate mammals that lived during the late Oligocene.
Like other chalicotheres, they had long claws that were likely used in a hook-like manner to pull down branches, suggesting they lived as semi-bipedal or fully bipedal browsers.