A 62-million-year-old skeleton sheds light on an enigmatic mammal

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Mar 11, 2025, 10:26 am79 pts
For more than 140 years, Mixodectes pungens, a species of small mammal that inhabited western North America in the early Paleocene, was a mystery. What little was known about them had been mostly gleaned from analyzing fossilized teeth and jawbone fragments.

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