Ailuropoda baconi
| Ailuropoda baconi Temporal range: Late Pleistocene | |
|---|---|
| Skull (IVPP V4715), Paleozoological Museum of China | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Carnivora |
| Family: | Ursidae |
| Genus: | Ailuropoda |
| Species: | †A. baconi |
| Binomial name | |
| †Ailuropoda baconi (Woodward 1915) | |
Ailuropoda baconi is an extinct panda known from cave deposits in South China, Laos, Vietnam, Myanmar, and Thailand from the Late Pleistocene, 750,000 years ago, and was preceded by A. wulingshanensis and A. microta as an ancestor of the giant panda (A. melanoleuca). Very little is known about this animal; however, its latest fossils have been dated to the Late Pleistocene.