Maiopatagium Temporal range: Bathonian-Oxfordian ~165–153 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N | |
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Holotype specimen (BMNH 2940) of M. furculiferum, National Natural History Museum of China | |
Scientific 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 | |
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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
- 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.
- 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.
- Rare Fossils Reveal New Species of Ancient Gliding Mammals, National Geographic:
- 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.
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- Euharamiyids
- Bathonian life
- Callovian life
- Oxfordian life
- Middle Jurassic synapsids of Asia
- Late Jurassic synapsids of Asia
- Jurassic China
- Fossils of China
- Paleontology in Liaoning
- Fossil taxa described in 2017
- Taxa named by Zhe-Xi Luo
- Taxa named by Qing-Jin Meng
- Taxa named by David M. Grossnickle
- Taxa named by Di Liu
- Taxa named by April I. Neander
- Taxa named by Yu-Guang Zhang
- Taxa named by Qiang Ji (paleontologist)
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