Mixodectes Explained

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.^[1]

Notes and References

1. 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 . . en . 15 . 1 . 10.1038/s41598-025-90203-z . 2045-2322 . 11897203 . 40069232 . 4 October 2025 . Nature.