Vulpes qiuzhudingi is an extinct species of fox that lived during the Neogene period in the Himalayas.[2] It was primarily carnivorous.[3] The fossils, dating from the Pliocene epoch between 5.08 and 3.60 million years ago, were discovered in the Zanda Basin and Kunlun Mountains of Tibet.[4][5] It was named after Qiu Zhuding, a paleontologist from the Chinese Academy of Sciences.[3] The species is believed to be the ancestor of Vulpes lagopus, the modern Arctic fox, which would support the "Out of Tibet" theory: namely, that a number of current Arctic species trace their ancestry to species that originally inhabited the Tibetan Plateau.[6]
| Vulpes qiuzhudingi | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Carnivora |
| Family: | Canidae |
| Genus: | Vulpes |
| Species: | †V. qiuzhudingi
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| Binomial name | |
| †Vulpes qiuzhudingi | |
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Alopex qiuzhudingi | |
References
edit- ^ Wang, Xiaoming; Tseng, Zhijie Jack; Li, Qiang; Takeuchi, Gary T.; Xie, Guangpu (11 June 2014). "From 'third pole' to north pole: a Himalayan origin for the arctic fox". Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 281 (1787). Royal Society: 20140893. doi:10.1098/rspb.2014.0893. PMC 4071559. PMID 24920475.
- ^ Wang, Xiaoming (2015). "Cenozoic vertebrate evolution and paleoenvironment in Tibetan Plateau: Progress and prospects". Gondwana Research. 4 (27): 1335–1354. doi:10.1016/j.gr.2014.10.014.
- ^ a b Qiu, Jane (11 June 2014). "Origins of Arctic fox traced back to Tibet". Nature. doi:10.1038/nature.2014.15398. S2CID 130724421. Retrieved 8 July 2014.
- ^ Li, Qiang; Xie, Guangpu; Takeuchi, Gary T.; Deng, Tao; Tseng, Zhijie J.; Grohé, Camille; Wang, Xiaoming (1 October 2014). "Vertebrate fossils on the roof of the world: Biostratigraphy and geochronology of high-elevation Kunlun Pass Basin, northern Tibetan Plateau, and basin history as related to the Kunlun strike-slip fault". Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 411: 46–55. doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2014.06.029. Retrieved 11 September 2024 – via Elsevier Science Direct.
- ^ Christine Dell'Amore (10 June 2014). "An extinct species of "very carnivorous" fox with supersharp teeth once roamed the frigid Tibetan Plateau, a new study says". National Geographic. Archived from the original on June 14, 2014. Retrieved 8 July 2014.
- ^ ""Out of Tibet" hypothesis: Cradle of evolution for cold-adapted mammals is in Tibet". National Science Foundation. June 11, 2014. Retrieved 8 July 2014.
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