Mixodectes

Extinct primatomorph genus From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Mixodectes is an extinct genus of mixodectid mammal that lived in North America during the Palaeocene epoch.

Phylum:Chordata
Class:Mammalia
Family:Mixodectidae
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Mixodectes
Temporal range: Palaeocene
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Dermoptera
Family: Mixodectidae
Genus: Mixodectes
Cope, 1883
Species

Mixodectes pungens Cope, 1883

Mixodectes malaris Cope, 1884

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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]

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