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(Redirected from Maiopatagium furculiferum) Extinct genus of mammaliaforms

Maiopatagium
Temporal range: Bathonian-Oxfordian
~165–153 Ma PreꞒ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Holotype specimen (BMNH 2940) of M. furculiferum, National Natural History Museum of China
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Synapsida
Clade: Therapsida
Clade: Cynodontia
Clade: Mammaliaformes
Order: Haramiyida
Family: Eleutherodontidae
Genus: Maiopatagium
Luo et al., 2017
Species
  • Maiopatagium furculiferum
    Luo et al., 2017
  • Maiopatagium sibiricum
    Averianov, et al., 2019
CGI reconstruction of a gliding M. furculiferum

Maiopatagium is an extinct genus of gliding euharamiyids which existed in Asia during the Jurassic period. 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).Maiopatagium and Vilevolodon, described concurrently, offer clues to the ways various synapsids have taken to the skies over evolutionary time scales. A second species, M. sibiricum, was described from the Bathonian aged Itat Formation in western Siberia, Russia in 2019

References

  1. Meng, Qing-Jin; Grossnickle, David M.; Liu, Di; Zhang, Yu-Guang; Neander, April I.; Ji, Qiang; Luo, Zhe-Xi (2017). "New gliding mammaliaforms from the Jurassic". Nature. 548 (7667): 291–296. doi:10.1038/nature23476. ISSN 1476-4687. PMID 28792929. S2CID 205259206.
  2. 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. 548 (7667): 326–329. Bibcode:2017Natur.548..326L. doi:10.1038/nature23483. PMID 28792934. S2CID 4463476.
  3. Rare Fossils Reveal New Species of Ancient Gliding Mammals, National Geographic:
  4. 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. 39 (4): e1669159. doi:10.1080/02724634.2019.1669159. ISSN 0272-4634. S2CID 209439988.
Cynodontia
Synapsida
Cynodontia
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Cynodontia
Cynodontia
Charassognathidae
Procynosuchidae
Epicynodontia
Galesauridae
Eucynodontia
Cynognathia
Probainognathia
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Abdalodon diastematicus Galesaurus planiceps
Probainognathia
Probainognathia
Chiniquodontidae
Probainognathidae
Ecteniniidae
Prozostrodontia
Prozostrodontidae
Tritheledontidae
Mammaliamorpha
Tritylodontidae
Mammaliaformes
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Chiniquodon theotonicus

Riograndia guaibensis

Oligokyphus triserialis
Mammaliaformes
Mammaliaformes
Kuehneotheriidae
Shuotheriidae
Docodonta
Haramiyida
Euharamiyida
Hahnodontidae?
Crown-Mammalia
Morganucodon watsoni Docofossor brachydactylus
See also
Incertae sedis
Paraphyletic /
Polyphyletic groups
Taxon identifiers
Maiopatagium


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