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Ailuropoda
| Ailuropoda Fossil range: Pliocene - Recent |
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 Giant Panda cub
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†A. baconi |
Ailuropoda is an ursid genus containing four species of giant pandas[1]. Only one species, the Giant Panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) currently exists; the other three species are prehistoric chronospecies.
Pandas are descended from Ailurarctos, which lived during the late Miocene[1].
Classification
- †Ailuropoda microta (late Pliocene)
- †Ailuropoda wulingshanensis (late Pliocene - early Pleistocene)
- †Ailuropoda baconi (Pleistocene)
- Ailuropoda melanoleuca
References
- ^ a b Jin, Changzhu; Russell L. Ciochon, Wei Dong, Robert M. Hunt Jr., Jinyi Liu, Marc Jaeger and Qizhi Zhu (June 19 2007). "The first skull of the earliest giant panda" (PDF; fee required). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 104 (26): 10932-10937. DOI:10.1073/pnas.0704198104. Retrieved on 2007-06-19.
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