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Taxonomy
Ailuropoda was named by Milne-Edwards (1870). It is extant.
It was replaced with Ailuropus by Milne-Edwards (1871); it was replaced with Aeluropus by Flower and Lydekker (1891).
It was assigned to Ailuropodinae by Kurtén (1985), O'Brien et al. (1985), Van Valen (1986) and O'Brien et al. (1986); to Ursidae by Ewer (1973), Carroll (1988) and Salesa et al. (2006); and to Ailuropodini by Chorn and Hoffman (1978) and Jin et al. (2007).
It was replaced with Ailuropus by Milne-Edwards (1871); it was replaced with Aeluropus by Flower and Lydekker (1891).
It was assigned to Ailuropodinae by Kurtén (1985), O'Brien et al. (1985), Van Valen (1986) and O'Brien et al. (1986); to Ursidae by Ewer (1973), Carroll (1988) and Salesa et al. (2006); and to Ailuropodini by Chorn and Hoffman (1978) and Jin et al. (2007).
Species
Synonyms
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Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1870 | Pandarctos Gervais p. 161 |
| 1870 | Ailuropoda Milne-Edwards p. 1 |
| 1871 | Ailuropus Milne-Edwards p. 88 |
| 1891 | Aeluropus Flower and Lydekker p. 88 |
| 1915 | Aelureidopus Woodward p. 428 |
| 1973 | Ailuropoda Ewer |
| 1978 | Ailuropoda Chorn and Hoffman p. 1 |
| 1985 | Ailuropoda Kurtén p. 487 |
| 1985 | Ailuropoda O'Brien et al. p. 144 |
| 1986 | Ailuropoda O'Brien et al. p. 428 |
| 1986 | Ailuropoda Van Valen p. 428 |
| 1988 | Ailuropoda Carroll |
| 2006 | Ailuropoda Salesa et al. p. 381 |
| 2007 | Ailuropoda Jin et al. p. 10935 |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
G. Ailuropoda Milne-Edwards 1870 [giant panda]
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†Ailuropoda baconi Woodward 1915
†Ailuropoda fovealis Matthew and Granger 1923
Ailuropoda melanoleuca David 1869 [giant panda]
†Ailuropoda microta Pei 1962
†Ailuropoda wulingshanensis Wang et al. 1982
Invalid names: Aelureidopus Woodward 1915 [synonym], Ailuropus Milne-Edwards 1871 [objective synonym], Pandarctos Gervais 1870 [objective synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
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| References: Carroll 1988, Nowak 1991, Ji et al. 2002, Lillegraven 1979, Hendy et al. 2009 | |||||
Age range
Maximum range based only on fossils: base of the Late/Upper Pliocene to the top of the Late/Upper Pleistocene or 3.60000 to 0.01170 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 2.588 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 2.588 Ma
Collections (28 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Late/Upper Pliocene | China (Guangxi) | Ailuropoda microta (73636) | |
| Early/Lower Pleistocene | China (Guanxi) | Ailuropoda microta (230994) | |
| Early/Lower Pleistocene | China (Hunan) | Ailuropoda melanoleuca (36819) | |
| Early/Lower Pleistocene | China ( Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region) | Ailuropoda wulingshanensis (214689) | |
| Early/Lower Pleistocene | China (Guangxi) | Ailuropoda microta (230325) | |
| Early/Lower Pleistocene | China (Anhui) | Ailuropoda microta (68380) | |
| Early/Lower Pleistocene - Middle Pleistocene | China (Sichuan) | Aeluropus fovealis (226365) | |
| Pleistocene | China (Jiangxi) | Ailuropoda sp. (35923) | |
| Pleistocene | China | Ailuropoda melanoleuca (237373) | |
| Pleistocene | Myanmar (Mandalay) | Aelureidopus baconi (168038) | |
| Middle Pleistocene | China (Guangdong) | Ailuropoda melanoleuca (120834) Ailuropoda sp. (40341) | |
| Middle Pleistocene | Thailand (Chaiyaphum) | Ailuropoda melanoleuca (237787) | |
| Middle Pleistocene | China (Guangxi) | Ailuropoda melanoleuca (38649 235739 235740) | |
| Middle Pleistocene | China (Guizhou) | Ailuropoda melanoleuca (51100) | |
| Middle Pleistocene | Vietnam (Lang Son) | Ailuropoda melanoleuca (92781) | |
| Middle Pleistocene | Vietnam | Ailuropoda melanoleuca (108001) | |
| Middle Pleistocene | China (Hubei) | Ailuropoda wulingshanensis (234753) | |
| Middle Pleistocene - Late/Upper Pleistocene | China (Guangdong) | Ailuropoda melanoleuca (13293) | |
| Middle Pleistocene - Late/Upper Pleistocene | China (Anhui) | Ailuropoda melanoleuca (36868) | |
| Middle Pleistocene - Late/Upper Pleistocene | China (Guangxi) | Ailuropoda melanoleuca (235737) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | Thailand (Chaiyaphum) | Ailuropoda melanoleuca (237788) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | Vietnam | Ailuropoda melanoleuca (107996) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene (high glacial) | China (Hubei) | Ailuropoda melanoleuca (92787) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | China (Hunan) | Ailuropoda melanoleuca (36729 36730) |