Maiopatagium
Extinct genus of mammaliaforms
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Maiopatagium is an extinct genus of gliding euharamiyids which existed in Asia during the Jurassic period.[1] It possessed a patagium between its limbs and presumably had similar lifestyle to living flying squirrels and colugos. The type species is Maiopatagium furculiferum, which was described from the Tiaojishan Formation by Zhe-Xi Luo in 2017; it lived in what is now the Liaoning region of China during the late Jurassic (Oxfordian age).[2] Maiopatagium and Vilevolodon, described concurrently, offer clues to the ways various synapsids have taken to the skies over evolutionary time scales.[3] A second species, M. sibiricum, was described from the Bathonian aged Itat Formation in western Siberia, Russia in 2019[4]
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| Holotype specimen (BMNH 2940) of M. furculiferum, National Natural History Museum of China | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Synapsida |
| Clade: | Therapsida |
| Clade: | Cynodontia |
| Clade: | Mammaliaformes |
| Order: | †Haramiyida |
| Family: | †Eleutherodontidae |
| Genus: | †Maiopatagium Luo et al., 2017 |
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