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| Pygmy Giant Panda Fossil range: Late Pliocene |
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The Pygmy Giant Panda (Ailuropoda microta) is the earliest known ancestor of the Giant Panda. It measureed 1 m (3 ft.) in length; the modern Giant Panda grows to a size in excess of 1.5 m (5 ft.). Wear patterns on its teeth suggest it lived on a diet of bamboo, the primary food of the Giant Panda. The first discovered skull of the animal in China is estimated to be 2 million years old.[1]
References
- ^ Jin, Changzhu; Russell L. Ciochon, Wei Dong, Robert M. Hunt Jr., Jinyi Liu, Marc Jaeger and Qizhi Zhu (2007-06-19). "The first skull of the earliest giant panda" (pdf). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 104 (26): 10932–10937. doi:. PMID 17578912, http://www.pnas.org/cgi/reprint/0704198104v1. Retrieved on 19 June 2007.
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