Mammoth fauna at the thermokarst lake Bulgunnyakhtakh (Ust-Yana district, Yakutia)
https://doi.org/10.31242/2618-9712-2021-26-2-4
Abstract
The article presents the results of field paleontological research within the framework of the research program “Biological aspects of mammoth fauna”, conducted in the Ust-Yana district of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) on the cryogenic lake Bulgunnyakhtakh in 2013. The work deals with the actual problem and the history of the study of mammoth fauna in Yakutia. During the field work at the site, more than 200 bone remains of upper Pleistocene mammal species of the mammoth fauna of northeastern Eurasia were collected: woolly mammoth -Mammuthus primigenius (Blumenbach, 1799); Pleistocene horse – Equus lenensis Russanov, 1968; woolly rhinoceros Coelododnta antiquitatis Blumenbach, 1799; primitive bison – Bison sp.; musk ox – Ovibos sp.; reindeer – Rangifer tarandus Smith, 1827; red deer – Cervus elaphus L.; elk – Alces alces L.; wolf – Canis lupus L. The paper also examines the possible causes and season of death of the mammals in this area during the Karginsky time and possible reasons of the formation of this type of sites in northern Yakutia.
About the Authors
E. N. Mashchenko
Borissiak Paleontological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences;
The Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia)
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
MASCHENKO Yevgeny Nikolaevich, Cand. Sci. (Biology), senior research fellow, 123 Prophsouznaya st., Moscow 117647;
Department of mammoth fauna research, 33 Lenina pr., Yakutsk 677007
Author ID: 70148
V. V. Plotnikov
The Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia)
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
PLOTNIKOV Valery Valerievich, Cand. Sci. (Biology), senior researcher, Department of mammoth fauna studies
33 Lenina pr., Yakutsk 677007
Scopus ID: 55899541200
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Mashchenko E.N., Plotnikov V.V. Mammoth fauna at the thermokarst lake Bulgunnyakhtakh (Ust-Yana district, Yakutia). Arctic and Subarctic Natural Resources. 2021;26(2):72-80. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.31242/2618-9712-2021-26-2-4
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