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DOI	10.1016/j.quascirev.2020.106296
	Unraveling the fossil record of foxes: An updated review on the Plio-Pleistocene Vulpes spp. from Europe
	Bartolini Lucenti S.; Madurell-Malapeira J.
发表日期	2020
ISSN	0277-3791
卷号	236
英文摘要	Fossil foxes, genus Vulpes, are known since the Late Miocene of North America and the Old World but their record is utterly scarce, fragmentary, and referred to a number of different species, often of uncertain affinity. Although the European Pleistocene fossil record of foxes is relatively more abundant, several species were described on the basis of partial, scanty or incomplete specimens. Among them Vulpes alopecoides, V. praeglacialis and V. praecorsac. Here we describe in detail the holotype of V. alopecoides further including in the hypodigm of this species the only complete cranium of the European fossil record. Taking into account the inter- and intraspecific variability displayed by selected Vulpes species (e.g., red fox, arctic fox, corsac fox), we performed morphological and morphometric comparisons between the fossil remains from different European localities. The results clearly suggest that the interspecific variability of V. alopecoides-V. praeglacialis-V. praecorsac is consistent and even lower than the observed intraspecific variability of the extant V. vulpes. All the analyzed European Late Pliocene-Early Pleistocene fox specimens can be reasonably accommodated into a single species, i.e., V. alopecoides with V. praeglacialis and V. praecorsac as junior subjective synonyms of the former. © 2020 Elsevier Ltd
英文关键词	Canidae; Carnivora; Europe; Plio-Pleistocene; Taxonomy; Vulpes
语种	英语
scopus关键词	Geology; Natural sciences; Early pleistocene; Fossil records; Inter-specific variability; Intraspecific variability; Late Pliocene; Morphometric comparison; Plio-pleistocene; Single species; Mammals; canid; cranium; fossil record; literature review; Miocene; morphology; morphometry; Pliocene-Pleistocene boundary; Europe; North America; Alopex lagopus; Canidae; Carnivora; Vulpes; Vulpes corsac; Vulpes vulpes
来源期刊	Quaternary Science Reviews
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/151491
作者单位	Earth Science Department, Paleo[Fab]Lab, University of Florence, Via La Pira 4, Firenze, 50121, Italy; Natural History Museum, Geology and Paleontology Section, University of Florence, Via La Pira 4, Firenze, 50121, Italy; Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Edifici ICTA-ICP, c/ de les columnes s/n Campus de la UAB, Cerdanyola del Vallès, Barcelona, 08193, Spain
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Bartolini Lucenti S.,Madurell-Malapeira J.. Unraveling the fossil record of foxes: An updated review on the Plio-Pleistocene Vulpes spp. from Europe[J],2020,236.
APA	Bartolini Lucenti S.,&Madurell-Malapeira J..(2020).Unraveling the fossil record of foxes: An updated review on the Plio-Pleistocene Vulpes spp. from Europe.Quaternary Science Reviews,236.
MLA	Bartolini Lucenti S.,et al."Unraveling the fossil record of foxes: An updated review on the Plio-Pleistocene Vulpes spp. from Europe".Quaternary Science Reviews 236(2020).