Ailurarctos
Topic: Biology
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Short description: Extinct genus of bears
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| Paleoart of Ailurarctos | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Carnivora |
| Family: | Ursidae |
| Tribe: | Ailuropodini |
| Genus: | †Ailurarctos Qi et al., 1989 |
| Type species | |
| †Ailurarctos lufengensis Qi et al., 1989
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†A. lufengensis Qi et al., 1989 | |
Ailurarctos ("cat bear") is an extinct genus of panda from the Late Miocene of China, some 8 million years ago.[1][2][3][4]
Different teeth structures in the Ailuropoda lineage indicate a mosaic evolution during the past 2 million years.[5] Like modern giant pandas, Ailurarctos had a false thumb that allowed it to grip bamboo, suggesting that the panda's specialized bamboo diet goes back to as early as 6 to 7 million years ago.[6]
References
- ↑ Qiu, Zhangxiang; Qi, Guoqin (1989). "Yúnnán lù fēng wǎn zhōng xīn shì de dà xióngmāo zǔxiān huàshí". Vertebrata PalAsiatica 27 (3): 153–169. http://www.ivpp.cas.cn/cbw/gjzdwxb/xbwzxz/200902/W020090813372865679901.pdf.
- ↑ "A Picture of Giant Panda's Evolutionary History and Fossil Evidences". China Giant Panda Museum. http://www.kepu.net.cn/english/giantpanda/giantpanda_evolution/200409230025.html.
- ↑ "The first skull of the earliest giant panda". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 104 (26): 10932–7. June 2007. doi:10.1073/pnas.0704198104. PMID 17578912. PMC 1904166. Bibcode: 2007PNAS..10410932J. http://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/104/26/10932.full.pdf.
- ↑ "Kretzoiarctos gen. nov., the oldest member of the giant panda clade". PLOS ONE 7 (11): e48985. 2012-11-14. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0048985. PMID 23155439. Bibcode: 2012PLoSO...748985A.
- ↑ "Cranial shape transformation in the evolution of the giant panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca)". Die Naturwissenschaften 98 (2): 107–16. February 2011. doi:10.1007/s00114-010-0748-x. PMID 21132275. Bibcode: 2011NW.....98..107F.
- ↑ Wang, X., Su, D.F., Jablonski, N.G. et al. Earliest giant panda false thumb suggests conflicting demands for locomotion and feeding. Sci Rep 12, 10538 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-13402-y
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