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Taxonomy
Ursus melanoleucus was named by David (1869). It is extant.
It was recombined as Ailuropus melanoleucus by Milne-Edwards (1871); it was recombined as Aeluropus melanoleucus by Flower and Lydekker (1891); it was recombined as Ailuropoda melanoleuca by Milne-Edwards (1870), Ewer (1973), Chorn and Hoffman (1978), Waits et al. (1999) and Jin et al. (2007).
It was recombined as Ailuropus melanoleucus by Milne-Edwards (1871); it was recombined as Aeluropus melanoleucus by Flower and Lydekker (1891); it was recombined as Ailuropoda melanoleuca by Milne-Edwards (1870), Ewer (1973), Chorn and Hoffman (1978), Waits et al. (1999) and Jin et al. (2007).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1869 | Ursus melanoleucus David p. 13 |
| 1870 | Ailuropoda melanoleuca Milne-Edwards p. 1 |
| 1871 | Ailuropus melanoleucus Milne-Edwards p. 88 |
| 1891 | Aeluropus melanoleucus Flower and Lydekker p. 560 |
| 1973 | Ailuropoda melanoleuca Ewer |
| 1978 | Ailuropoda melanoleuca Chorn and Hoffman p. 1 |
| 1999 | Ailuropoda melanoleuca Waits et al. p. 90 |
| 2007 | Ailuropoda melanoleuca Jin et al. p. 10935 |
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Ailuropoda melanoleuca David 1869 [giant panda]
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
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| References: Nowak 1991, Lillegraven 1979, Hendy et al. 2009, Carroll 1988, Ji et al. 2002 | |||||
Age range: base of the Middle Pleistocene to the top of the Late/Upper Pleistocene or 0.77400 to 0.01170 Ma
Collections (11 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Middle Pleistocene | China (Guangdong) | Ailuropoda melanoleuca (120834) | |
| Middle Pleistocene | China (Guangxi) | Ailuropoda melanoleuca (38649) | |
| Middle Pleistocene | Vietnam (Lang Son) | Ailuropoda melanoleuca (92781) | |
| Middle Pleistocene | Vietnam | Ailuropoda melanoleuca (108001) | |
| Middle Pleistocene | China (Guizhou) | Ailuropoda melanoleuca (51100) | |
| Middle Pleistocene - Late/Upper Pleistocene | China (Anhui) | Ailuropoda melanoleuca (36868) | |
| Middle Pleistocene - Late/Upper Pleistocene | China (Guangdong) | Ailuropoda melanoleuca (13293) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene (high glacial) | China (Hubei) | Ailuropoda melanoleuca (92787) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | Vietnam | Ailuropoda melanoleuca (107996) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | China (Hunan) | Ailuropoda melanoleuca (36729 36730) |