Mixodectes

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

Mixodectes Temporal range: Palaeocene PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Dermoptera
Family:	†Mixodectidae
Genus:	†Mixodectes Cope, 1883
Species
Mixodectes pungens Cope, 1883 Mixodectes malaris Cope, 1884

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]