Table 1.

Phylogenetic hypotheses for the position of Ailurus

Ailurus+UrsidaeTodd & Pressman (1968),Hunt (1974),Bugge (1978),Wozencraft (1989a,b;) Decker & Wozencraft (1991),Zhang & Shi (1991)	Ailurus + ProcyonidaeMivart (1885),Hollister (1915),Gregory (1936),O’Brien et al. (1985),Goldman et al. (1989),Wayne et al. (1989),Pecon Slattery & O’Brien (1995),Dragoo & Honeycutt (1997)
Ailurus + (Ursidae+Otariidae)Ginsburg (1982)	Ailurus+ (Procyonidae +Mustelidae)Fulton & Strobeck (2006)
Ailurus+ (Ursidae +Pinnipeds)Wyss & Flynn (1993),Vrana et al. (1994)	Ailurus+ (Procyonidae + Mephitidae + Mustelidae)Bininda-Emonds et al. (1999),Flynn et al. (2005)
Ailurus+ (Ursidae + Procyonidae)Zhang & Ryder (1993)	Ailurus+ MephitidaeFlynn et al. (2000),Delisle & Strobeck (2005)