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

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The anatomy of the animal's limbs and claws indicate ... to thrive in the same trees likely shared with other early primate relatives." Mixodectes was quite large for a tree-dwelling mammal ...

Brooklyn College/CUNY Graduate Center Associate Professor of Anthropology Stephen Chester and a team of researchers have ...

By the anatomy of its limbs and claws ... Mixodectes to thrive in the same trees likely shared with other early primate relatives.” Mixodectids were also euarchontans, a group of mammals ...

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