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**''[[Giant_Panda#Subspecies|Ailuropoda melanoleuca melanoleuca]]'' |
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**''[[Qinling Panda|Ailuropoda melanoleuca qinlingensis]]'' |
**''[[Qinling Panda|Ailuropoda melanoleuca qinlingensis]]'' |
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**†''[[Eastern Panda|Ailuropoda melanoleuca hastorni]]'' |
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==References== |
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Revision as of 00:20, 3 July 2009
| Ailuropoda Temporal range: Late Pliocene to Recent
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| Genus: | Ailuropoda Milne-Edwards, 1870
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Ailuropoda is an ursid genus containing five species of giant pandas[1]. Only one species, the Giant Panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) currently exists; the other four species are prehistoric chronospecies. Despite its taxonomic classification as a carnivore, the panda has a diet that is primarily herbivorous, which consists almost exclusively of bamboo.
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 minor (Pleistocene)
- Ailuropoda melanoleuca
References
- ^ a b Jin, Changzhu (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. PMID 17578912. Retrieved 2007-06-19.
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