After Nowak, 1991, McKenna & Bell, 1997, Wang, 1997, and Wallace & Wang, 2004
<==o Ailuridae Gray, 1843 [Procyonidae: Simocyoninae + Ailurinae] |?-o †Amphictinae Winge, 1895 | |-- †Viretius goeriachensis (Toula, 1884) | `--o †Amphictis Pomel, 1853 | |-- †A. ambiguus Pomel, 1853 | |-- †A. borbonicus Viret, 1929 | `-- †A. wintershofensis Roth, 1994 `--+--o †Simocyoninae Dawkins, 1868 [non Zittel, 1893] | |?- †Protursus simpsoni Crusafont & Kurtén, 1976 sensu Peigné et al., 2005 [Simocyon simpsoni (Crusafont & Kurtén, 1976) Thenius, 1977] | |-- †Alopecocyon Camp & Vanderhoof, 1940 [Alopecodon Viret, 1933a] | |-- †Actiocyon Stock, 1947 | `--o †Simocyon Wagner, 1858 [taxonomic history] | |?- †S. hungaricus Kretzoi in Kadic & Kretzoi, 1927 | |-- †S. diaphorus (Kaup, 1833) | `--+-- †S. batalleri (Viret, 1929) [taxonomic history] | `-- †S. primigenius (Roth & Wagler, 1854) [taxonomic history] `--o Ailurinae Gray, 1843 |-- †Magerictis imperialensis Ginsburg, Morales, Soria & Herraez, 1997 |-- †Pristiailurus bristoli Wallace & Wang, 2004 (Bristol's Applachian panda) `--+--o †Parailurus Schlosser, 1899 | |?- †P.. sp [Plio. Japan] [Sasagawa, Takahashi, K., Sakumoto, Nagamori, Yabe & Kobayashi, I., 2003] | |-- †P. anglicus (Boyd Dawkins, 1888) | `-- †P. hungaricus Kormos, 1935 `--o Ailurus fulgens Cuvier in Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire & Cuvier, 1825 (pikkupanda, kultapanda) |-- A. f. fulgens (<Nepal, Assam>) `-- A. f. styani (<Burma, E.-Kiina>)
Reference(s):
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–Acta Zoologica Fennica: Vol. 144, #Separatum, pp. 1-29 - Ginsburg, L., Maridet, O. & Mein, P., 2001: Un Ailurinae (Mammalia, Carnivora, Ailuridae) dans le Miocène moyen de Four (Isère, France).
[An Ailurinae (Mammalia, Carnivora, Ailuridae) in the middle Miocene of Four (Isère, France)]
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