<h2>Ailuropoda</h2>

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Ailuropoda is the only extant genus in the ursid (bear) subfamily Ailuropodinae. It contains one living and four fossil species of giant panda.
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Only one species—Ailuropoda melanoleuca—currently exists; the other four species are prehistoric chronospecies. Despite its taxonomic classification as a carnivoran, 
the giant panda has a diet that is primarily herbivorous, which consists almost exclusively of bamboo.
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Giant pandas have descended from Ailurarctos, which lived during the late Miocene.
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In 2011 fossil teeth from over 11 mya found in the Iberian peninsula were identified as belonging to a previously unidentified species in the Ailuropodinae. This species was named Agriarctos beatrix.
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