Mixodectes
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| Mixodectes Temporal range:
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| Scientific classification Edit this classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Dermoptera |
| Family: | †Mixodectidae |
| Genus: | †Mixodectes Cope, 1883 |
| Species | |
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Mixodectes pungens Cope, 1883 Mixodectes malaris Cope, 1884 | |
Mixodectes is an extinct genus of mixodectid mammal that lived in North America during the Palaeocene epoch.
Palaeobiology
[edit | edit source]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
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