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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Infraclass: | Placentalia |
| 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
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
References
- 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.