Mixodectes belonged to an extinct family known as mixodectids and lived during the Paleocene epoch. This geological epoch followed the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event that killed off non-avian ...

Mixodectes was quite large for a tree-dwelling mammal in North America during the early Paleocene — the geological epoch that followed the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event that killed off ...

experts said the Castle Rock fossils will compel them to reconsider the period of life immediately following the dinosaurs’ extinction, known as the lower Paleocene. “I never would’ve put ...

A study published by Scientific Rreports sheds light on the anatomy, behavior, and evolutionary significance of Mixodectes pungens, an ancient mammal that lived shortly after the extinction of the ...

Sixty-five million years ago, as the last of the non-avian dinosaurs were going extinct, our earliest recognized ancestors appeared in the fossil record. When, where, and why did they evolve?

Mixodectes was quite large for a tree-dwelling mammal in North America during the early Paleocene—the geological ... event that killed off non-avian dinosaurs 66 million years ago, the ...