Maiopatagium

{{Short description|Extinct genus of mammaliaforms}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| fossil_range = Bathonian-Oxfordian
~{{fossil range|165|153}}

| image = Maiopatagium Holotype NNHM.jpg

| image_caption = Holotype specimen (BMNH 2940) of M. furculiferum, National Natural History Museum of China

| taxon = Maiopatagium

| authority = Luo et al., 2017

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision = * {{extinct}}Maiopatagium furculiferum
Luo et al., 2017

• {{extinct}}Maiopatagium sibiricum
  Averianov, et al., 2019

}}

File:Maiopatagium NT.jpg

Maiopatagium is an extinct genus of gliding euharamiyids which existed in Asia during the Jurassic period.{{Cite journal |last1=Meng |first1=Qing-Jin |last2=Grossnickle |first2=David M. |last3=Liu |first3=Di |last4=Zhang |first4=Yu-Guang |last5=Neander |first5=April I. |last6=Ji |first6=Qiang |last7=Luo |first7=Zhe-Xi |date=2017 |title=New gliding mammaliaforms from the Jurassic |url=https://www.nature.com/articles/nature23476 |journal=Nature |language=en |volume=548 |issue=7667 |pages=291–296 |doi=10.1038/nature23476 |pmid=28792929 |s2cid=205259206 |issn=1476-4687|url-access=subscription }} 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).{{cite journal |author1=Zhe-Xi Luo |author2=Qing-Jin Meng |author3=David M. Grossnickle |author4=Di Liu |author5=April I. Neander |author6=Yu-Guang Zhang |author7=Qiang Ji |year=2017 |title=New evidence for mammaliaform ear evolution and feeding adaptation in a Jurassic ecosystem |journal=Nature |volume=548 |issue= 7667|pages= 326–329|doi=10.1038/nature23483 |pmid=28792934 |bibcode=2017Natur.548..326L |s2cid=4463476 }} Maiopatagium and Vilevolodon, described concurrently, offer clues to the ways various synapsids have taken to the skies over evolutionary time scales.Rare Fossils Reveal New Species of Ancient Gliding Mammals, National Geographic: [https://web.archive.org/web/20170809203822/http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/08/fossils-flying-gliding-mammals/] A second species, M. sibiricum, was described from the Bathonian aged Itat Formation in western Siberia, Russia in 2019{{Cite journal|last1=Averianov|first1=Alexander O.|last2=Martin|first2=Thomas|last3=Lopatin|first3=Alexey V.|last4=Schultz|first4=Julia A.|last5=Schellhorn|first5=Rico|last6=Krasnolutskii|first6=Sergei|last7=Skutschas|first7=Pavel|last8=Ivantsov|first8=Stepan|date=2019-11-05|title=Haramiyidan mammals from the Middle Jurassic of Western Siberia, Russia. Part 1: Shenshouidae and Maiopatagium|journal=Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology|volume=39|issue=4|language=en|pages=e1669159|doi=10.1080/02724634.2019.1669159|s2cid=209439988|issn=0272-4634}}