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Jan 1, 2011 · Origin of the Ailuridae. The earliest ancestors of the red panda within the order Carnivora were the miacids, which lived in the Late Palaeocene and Eocene of Eurasia and North America, between approximately 55 and 34 million years ago [1].
- Manuel J. Salesa, Stéphane Peigné, Mauricio Antón, Jorge Morales
- 2011
Most recent genetic research, however, places red pandas in their own, independent family: Ailuridae. Molecular phylogenetic studies show that red pandas are an ancient species in the order Carnivora (superfamily Musteloidea) and are probably most closely related to the group that includes skunks, raccoons and weasels.
Dec 31, 2011 · Recent molecular studies indicated that it belongs to a separate family, the Ailuridae Gray, 1843, originated from the trichotomy of the superfamily Musteloidea (Flynn et al. 2000).
Ailuridae is a family in the mammal order Carnivora. The family consists of the red panda (the sole living representative) and its extinct relatives. Georges Cuvier first described Ailurus as belonging to the raccoon family in 1825; this classification has been controversial ever since.
Jan 1, 2011 · That Mephitidae and Ailuridae are successively more closely related to a clade containing Procyonidae and Mustelidae was first suggested by Sato et al. (2006) and later, independently, by Fulton and Strobeck (2006) based on evidence from nDNA sequences.
