Paroodectes
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Paroodectes is a Miacid animal that lived during the Eocene in the rain forests and swamps of the present-day Germany. It was a prehistoric pedator that had the size and the appearance of a cat and was well adapted to climbing, as is apparent from its limbs, joints and shoulder bones. Its long tail gave balance for tree climbing and jumping from branch to branch. Paroodectes probably hunted in the tree tops on insects, rodents and small monkeys.
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