Biology:Mixodectes
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Mixodectes is an extinct genus of mixodectid mammal that lived in North America during the Paleocene epoch.
Palaeobiology
M. pungens lived an arboreal lifestyle, and its teeth suggest that it was an omnivore whose diet included leaves despite lacking the specialist adaptations for folivory seen in colugos.[1]
References
- ↑ Chester, Stephen G. B.; Williamson, Thomas E.; Crowell, Jordan W.; Silcox, Mary T.; Bloch, Jonathan I.; Sargis, Eric J. (11 March 2025). "New remarkably complete skeleton of Mixodectes reveals arboreality in a large Paleocene primatomorphan mammal following the Cretaceous-Paleogene mass extinction" (in en). Scientific Reports 15 (1). doi:10.1038/s41598-025-90203-z. ISSN 2045-2322. PMID 40069232. PMC 11897203. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-90203-z?fromPaywallRec=false#citeas. Retrieved 4 October 2025.
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