Newly analyzed fossil skeleton of Mixodectes pungens reveals its tree-dwelling lifestyle, dietary habits, and ties to primates and colugos.

The planet’s earliest mammals are an important part of our ... Mixodectes pungens lived in western North America during the early Paleocene–about about 66 to 56 million years ago.

The discovery offers valuable information about how ancient mammals diversified to fill ... occupying a unique ecological ...

It also shows that these arboreal mammals—an extinct family known as ... a tree-dwelling mammal in North America during the early Paleocene—the geological epoch that followed the Cretaceous ...

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