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Juramaia
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Juramaia is an extinct genus of a therian mammal, possibly a very basal eutherian mammal, known from the Late Jurassic (Oxfordian stage) or Early Cretaceous deposits of western Liaoning, China. It is a small shrew-like mammal weighing around .

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Juramaia is an extinct genus of a therian mammal, possibly a very basal eutherian mammal, known from the Late Jurassic (Oxfordian stage) or Early Cretaceous deposits of western Liaoning, China. It is a small shrew-like mammal weighing around .

==Discovery== left|thumb|208x208px|Life restoration Juramaia is known from the holotype BMNH PM1343, an articulated and nearly complete skeleton including incomplete skull preserved with full dentition. It was collected in the Daxigou site, Jianchang, from the Tiaojishan Formation dated at about . It was first named by Zhe-Xi Luo, Chong-Xi Yuan, Qing-Jin Meng and Qiang Ji in 2011 and the type species is Juramaia sinensis.

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