Named By: | ZheinXi Luo, ChonginXi Yuan, QinginJin Meng & Qiang Ji in 2011 |
Time Period: | Late Jurassic, 160.89-160.25 Ma |
Location: | China, Liaoning Province - Tiaojishan Formation |
Size: | Precise body size unavailable, but the skull is measured at 22 millimetres long |
Diet: | Insectivore |
Fossil(s): | Almost complete skeleton preserved on slab |
Classification: | | Chordata | Mammalia | Eutheria | |
Juramaia is an extinct genus of very basal eutherian mammal from the Late Jurassic (Oxfordian stage) deposits of western Liaoning, China; it is a small shrew-like mammal of body length approximately 70-100 mm. Juramaia is known from the holotype BMNH PM1343, an articulated and nearly complete skeleton including incomplete skull preserved with full dentition.