One of them, Mixodectes pungens lived in western North America during the early Paleocene–about about 66 to 56 million years ago. It was first discovered over 140 years ago by paleontologist ...

Fossil discoveries provide valuable insights into extinct species, revealing their behaviors, environments, and relationships to modern animals. One such mystery surrounded Mixodectes pungens, a small ...

The Artstor website will be retired on Aug 1st. Journal of Paleontology Vol. 57, No. 6, Nov., 1983 New Late Paleocene Molluscs from the Sim... New Late Paleocene Molluscs from the Simi Hills, Ventura ...

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 ...

In the Paleocene the summer water temperature in ... could cross land bridges and blend together. Hoofed running animals, the ancestors of horses and deer, showed up in the Bighorn.

That might not sound like much, but it effected radical change for the sea, the land, and the animals that inhabit the planet today. The event is known as the Palaeocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum ...

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 ...