Mixodectes Temporal range: | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Dermoptera |
Family: | † Mixodectidae |
Genus: | † Mixodectes Cope, 1883 |
Species | |
Mixodectes pungensCope, 1883 Mixodectes malarisCope, 1884 |
Mixodectes is an extinct genus of mixodectid mammal that lived in North America during the Palaeocene epoch.
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]