Maiopatagium

Maiopatagium is an extinct genus of euharamiyids which existed in Asia during the Jurassic period. 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).[1] It possessed a patagium between its limbs and presumably had similar lifestyle to living flying squirrels and colugos.Maiopatagium and Vilevolodon, described concurrently, offer clues to the ways various synapsids have taken to the skies over evolutionary time scales.[2] A second species, M. sibiricum, was described from the Bathonian aged Itat Formation in 2019[3]

Maiopatagium
Temporal range: Bathonian–Oxfordian
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: †Haramiyida
Family: †Eleutherodontidae
Genus: †Maiopatagium
Luo et al., 2017
Species
  • †Maiopatagium furculiferum
    Luo et al., 2017
  • †Maiopatagium sibiricum
    Averianov, et al 2019)

References
  1. Zhe-Xi Luo; Qing-Jin Meng; David M. Grossnickle; Di Liu; April I. Neander; Yu-Guang Zhang; Qiang Ji (2017). "New evidence for mammaliaform ear evolution and feeding adaptation in a Jurassic ecosystem". Nature. in press (7667): 326–329. doi:10.1038/nature23483. PMID 28792934.
  2. Rare Fossils Reveal New Species of Ancient Gliding Mammals, National Geographic: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/08/fossils-flying-gliding-mammals/
  3. Averianov, Alexander O.; Martin, Thomas; Lopatin, Alexey V.; Schultz, Julia A.; Schellhorn, Rico; Krasnolutskii, Sergei; Skutschas, Pavel; Ivantsov, Stepan (2019-11-05). "Haramiyidan mammals from the Middle Jurassic of Western Siberia, Russia. Part 1: Shenshouidae and Maiopatagium". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology: e1669159. doi:10.1080/02724634.2019.1669159. ISSN 0272-4634.
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