Is it a bird? Is it a bat?

No, it is a flying squirrel – dodging the Pterodactyli back when mammals were still young.

It has been named Volatico therium antiquus, meaning ancient gliding beast, and was so well preserved that impressions of fur and part of a skin membrane survive in the rock in which it was found.
The animal, being light and boasting large skin membranes that stretched between the limbs, was one of the most accomplished gliders known.
It is by far the earliest mammalian flier discovered and predates the earliest known bat, which is 51 million years old, by more than 70 million years. The earliest gliding rodent is 30 million years old.

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