"Giant pandas (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) form the most basal branch of the bear family.Ê The figure below shows the relationship of the bears to the rest of the extant order Carnivoria (Mammalia).ÊIt is the composite of two maximum parsimony phylogenies, Figures 1 and 8 of Bininda-Emonds et al. (1999), derived from data present in scientific literature.Ê The scale of the tree is millions of years before present and was derived from data in Tables 2 and 9 of Bininda-Emonds et al. (1999)." With chart of bear relations and references.

http://tolweb.org/tree?group=Carnivora&contgroup=Eutheria -- all of Carnivora at the Tree of Life web project