Ailuropoda fovealis

Ghedoghedo · Public Domain · via Wikidata/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AiluropodaPBDB
- Diet
- herbivore, carnivorePBDB, for Ursidae
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Ursidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At most 2.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 2.58 Mya and 11.7 ka, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Ailuropoda fovealis on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.
When
3 occurrences- Pleistocene100%
These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.
Ailuropoda fovealis and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Ailuropoda fovealis and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
50 taxa- Rhinoceros sinensis3 sites
- Arctonyx rostratus2 sites
- Cervus unicolor2 sites
- Hystrix2 sites
- Macaca2 sites
- Rhizomys troglodytes2 sites
- Stegodon insignis2 sites
- Sus2 sites
- Tapirus (Megatapirus) augustus2 sites
- Ursus thibetanus kokeni2 sites
- Arctonyx collaris cf. rostratus1 site
- Atherurus1 site
- Bos (Bibos)1 site
- Bos gaurus1 site
- Bubalus1 site
- Bubalus bubalis1 site
- Bunopithecus sericus1 site
- Cervus1 site
- Chalicotherium sinense1 site
- Chiroptera1 site
- Crocuta crocuta ultima1 site
- Cuon1 site
- Cyon antiquus1 site
- Gigantopithecus blacki1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Ailuropoda fovealis, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.
This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.
Entered from
3 references- A diverse hominoid fauna from the late middle Pleistocene breccia cave of Tham Khuyen, Socialist Republic of Vietnam1
- A new locality of Quaternary mammalian fossils at Tongshan in the south of Anhui Province1
- New fossil mammals from the Pliocene of Sze-chuan, China1
Each of the 3 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1

Picture of Ailuropoda fovealis
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Ghedoghedo
- Licence
- Public Domain
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Ailuropoda fovealis was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itAiluropoda through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Matthew and Granger 1923)