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]
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^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
Ailuropodabaconi is an extinct panda known from cave deposits in south China, Laos, Vietnam, Myanmar and Thailand from the Late Pleistocene, 750 thousand...
Ailuropoda microta is the earliest known ancestor of the giant panda. It measured 1 m (3 ft) in length; the modern giant panda grows to a size in excess...
features more typical Middle Pleistocene animals such as the panda Ailuropodabaconi and the stegodontid proboscidean Stegodon. Other classic animals typically...
larger animals which lived alongside these humans include the extinct Ailuropodabaconi panda, the Crocuta ultima hyena, the Stegodon, and the giant tapir...
Ailuropodini Genus Agriarctos† Genus Ailurarctos† A. lufengensis Genus Ailuropoda A. baconi (2.6–0.012 Mya) A. fovealis A. microta (2.6–0.78 Mya) A. wulingshanensis...
lower toothrow. Unlike their closest living relative, the giant panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) which is a highly specialized bamboo-eater, the evolution...
much as 1,000 kg (2,200 lb). Ailuropodabaconi from the Pleistocene was larger than the modern giant panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca). The biggest odobenid...
of China, some 8 million years ago. Different teeth structures in the Ailuropoda lineage indicate a mosaic evolution during the past 2 million years. Like...
small herbivorous animal that ate very hard plants. The giant panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) has a special craniodental structure that serves as a durophagous...
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