Skeleton shows Mixodectes pungens lived in trees and primarily ate leaves during the Paleocene epoch, highlighting its unique ...

Mixodectes belonged to an extinct family known as mixodectids and lived during the Paleocene epoch. This geological epoch ...

Mixodectes pungens, a species of small mammal that inhabited western North America in the early Paleocene, was a mystery.

Their mission? To find fossils of ancient plants and reptiles that thrived in the Paleocene epoch—the period right after the dinosaurs went extinct, about 60 million years ago. Source ...

"This fossil skeleton provides new evidence ... a tree-dwelling mammal in North America during the early Paleocene -- the geological epoch that followed the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event ...