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 ...

Our findings show that they are close relatives of primates and colugos — flying ... of Mixodectes reveals arboreality in a large Paleocene primatomorphan mammal following the Cretaceous ...

While one analysis supported that they were archaic primates, the other did not ... of Mixodectes reveals arboreality in a large Paleocene primatomorphan mammal following the Cretaceous-Paleogene ...

When, where, and why did they evolve? Species in the fossil record that exhibit all these features will be easy to recognize as primates. However, at some point primates must have evolved from ...

But so far there are no Paleocene fossils a paleontologist would look at and call a primate or a horse—and it is not, Gingerich told me, for lack of looking. During the PETM itself a strange ...

Mixodectes was considered a large tree-dwelling mammal in North America during the early Paleocene. Its skeleton was found ...

Gebo, D. A shrew-sized origin for Primates. Yearbook of Physical Anthropology 47, 40-62 (2004). Gingerich, P.D. Environment and evolution through the Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum. Trends in ...

occupying a unique ecological niche in the early Paleocene. Its larger body size and leaf-heavy diet allowed it to thrive alongside early primate relatives in the same treetop environments.

Today the average global temperature is around 15-16 degrees Celsius, but in the Paleocene it was around ... The PETM is the period during which primates and social monkeys evolved.

“Our findings show that they are close relatives of primates and colugos — flying lemurs native ... Mixodectes was quite large for a tree-dwelling mammal in North America during the early Paleocene — ...

"Our findings show that they are close relatives of primates and colugos -- flying ... dwelling mammal in North America during the early Paleocene -- the geological epoch that followed the ...