A 62-million-year-old skeleton sheds light on an enigmatic mammal – Research News https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/a-62-million-year-old-skeleton-sheds-light-on-an-enigmatic-mammal/
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. But a new study of the most complete s
Crowell of the City University of New York and Mary Silcox of the University of Toronto