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 | |
Vulpes qiuzhudingi is an
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]
References
- PMID 24920475.
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- ^ S2CID 130724421. Retrieved 8 July 2014.
- . Retrieved 11 September 2024 – via Elsevier Science Direct.
- National Geographic. Archived from the originalon 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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