Mixodectes
Sign in to saveMixodectes is an extinct genus of mixodectid mammal that lived in North America during the Palaeocene epoch.
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- Parent taxon
- Mixodectidae
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- taxon rank
- genus
- taxon name
- Mixodectes
- time period
- Paleocene
- location of discovery
- San Juan Basin
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- Palaeobiology
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Mixodectes is an extinct genus of mixodectid mammal that lived in North America during the Palaeocene 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.
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