Overview and preliminary analysis of the new finds of woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius Blumenbach, 1799) in the Yana-Indigirka lowland, Yakutia, Russia

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• 作者：V.V. Plotnikov ; ^{mammuthus@yandex.ru" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author} ; ^{mammuthus@mail.ru" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author} ; A.V. Protopopov ; S.D. Kolesov ; A.I. Klimovskiy
• 关键词：Mammuthus primigenius ; Late Pleistocene ; Yana-Indigirka lowland ; Yakutia ; Morphology ; Mammoth site
• 刊名：Quaternary International
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：25 June 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：406
• 期：part_PB
• 页码：70-85
• 全文大小：6325 K

文摘

In this paper, we present a morphometric research of the fossil material from four sites in the Yana-Indigirka lowland, Yakutia. The preliminary results showed that the Selliakh and Mus-Khaya sites contained mass assemblages of woolly mammoths (Mammuthus primigenius Blumenbach, 1799) of different individual ages, resembling a herd of modern African elephants – Loxodonta africana Blumenbach, 1797. The Buor-Uriakh and Chondon sites yielded bones of two woolly mammoth individuals, whose morphological characteristics and individual ages were determined.