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Ailuropoda baconi

Mammalia - Carnivora - Ursidae

Taxonomy
Aelureidopus baconi was named by Woodward (1915). It is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Mogok cave, which is in a Pleistocene cave horizon in Myanmar. It is the type species of Aelureidopus.

It was recombined as Ailuropoda melanoleuca baconi by Wang (1974) and Chorn and Hoffman (1978); it was recombined as Ailuropoda baconi by Davis (1964) and Jin et al. (2007).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1915Aelureidopus baconi Woodward p. 428
1964Ailuropoda baconi Davis
1974Ailuropoda melanoleuca baconi Wang
1978Ailuropoda melanoleuca baconi Chorn and Hoffman p. 3
2007Ailuropoda baconi Jin et al. p. 10935

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Life
Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
Tetrapoda
Reptiliomorpha
Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
Cotylosauria()
Amniota
subclassSynapsida
Therapsida()
infraorderCynodontia()
Mammaliamorpha
Mammaliaformes
classMammalia
Theriamorpha(Rowe 1993)
RankNameAuthor
Theriiformes()
Trechnotheria
Cladotheria
Zatheria
subclassTribosphenida()
subclassTheria
Eutheria()
Placentalia
Boreoeutheria
Laurasiatheria
Scrotifera
Ferae()
CarnivoramorphaWyss and Flynn 1993
CarnivoraformesFlynn et al.
orderCarnivora
suborderCaniformiaKretzoi 1943
infraorderCanoidea(Simpson 1931)
superfamilyArctoideaFlower 1869
Ursida
superfamilyUrsoideaFischer de Waldheim 1817
familyUrsidaeGray 1825
subfamilyAiluropodinae
genusAiluropodaMilne-Edwards 1870
speciesbaconi()

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.

Ailuropoda baconi Woodward 1915
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available