Biology:Ailuropoda baconi
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Short description: Extinct species of bear
| Ailuropoda baconi Temporal range: Late Pleistocene
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Carnivora |
| Family: | Ursidae |
| Genus: | Ailuropoda |
| Species: | †A. baconi
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| †Ailuropoda baconi (Woodward 1915)
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Ailuropoda baconi[1] is an extinct panda known from cave deposits in south China, Laos, Vietnam, Myanmar and Thailand from the Late Pleistocene, 750 thousand years ago, and was preceded by A. wulingshanensis and A. microta as an ancestor of the giant panda (A. melanoleuca).[2] Very little is known about this animal; however, its latest fossils have been dated to the Late Pleistocene.[3]
A. baconi is the largest panda ancestor on record and was larger than its descendant.[4]
References
- ↑ Woodward, A. Smith (1915). "On the Skull of an extinct Mammal related to Æluropus from a Cave in the Ruby Mines at Mogok, Burma". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 85 (III): 425–428. doi:10.1111/j.1469-7998.1915.tb07605.x. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/31547420.
- ↑ C. Jin, R. L. Ciochon, W. Dong, R. M. Hunt, Jr., J. Liu, M. Jaeger, and Q. Zhu. 2007. "The first skull of the earliest giant panda". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 104:10932-10937
- ↑ Switek, Brian. "Bears and Bamboo: The fossil record of giant pandas". WIRED. https://www.wired.com/2011/01/bears-and-bamboo-the-fossil-record-of-giant-pandas/.
- ↑ C. Jin, R. L. Ciochon, W. Dong, R. M. Hunt, Jr., J. Liu, M. Jaeger, and Q. Zhu. 2007. "The first skull of the earliest giant panda". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 104:10932-10937
Wikidata ☰ Q16350420 entry
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