Mixodectes
Mixodectes is an extinct genus of mixodectid mammal that lived in North America during the Paleocene epoch.
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Family: | †Mixodectidae |
| Genus: | †Mixodectes Cope, 1883 |
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Mixodectes is an extinct genus of mixodectid mammal that lived in North America during the Paleocene epoch.
Palaeobiology
[edit]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
[edit]- ^ 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". Scientific Reports. 15 (1). doi:10.1038/s41598-025-90203-z. ISSN 2045-2322. PMC 11897203. PMID 40069232. Retrieved 4 October 2025 – via Nature.
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