Maiopatagium
| Maiopatagium | |
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| CGI reconstruction of a gliding M. furculiferum | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Synapsida |
| Clade: | Therapsida
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| Clade: | Cynodontia
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| Clade: | Mammaliaformes |
| Order: | †Haramiyida |
| Family: | † Eleutherodontidae
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| Genus: | †Maiopatagium Luo et al., 2017 |
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Maiopatagium is an
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]