Designing a creature with jaws to crush iron bones

In my most recent question, I asked for a material other than calcium and collagen that could form skeletons in alien creatures. My favourite answer was bio-steel; "Iron with a small percentage of elemental carbon".

There will be scavengers on my world; scavengers as powerful to the alien carcasses as spotted hyenas are to Terran ones. And that means that their jaws need to be able to crush the steel bones.

So, what anatomical adaptations would be best for a scavenger that's built to crush iron bones? Assume a radius of about 5 cm and a density of 7.5 g/cm^3

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