The bone remains of Mammuthus primigenius from the vicinity of Dapparay village, Olekminsky District, Southern Yakutia
https://doi.org/10.31242/2618-9712-2020-25-2-5
Abstract
The article presents the data on the new findings of the remains of a woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius Blumenbach, 1799) found in the Olekminsky district of Yakutia. In the summer of 2018. parts of the skeletons of woolly mammoths were found in the area of Legentei Oyogoso and on the banks of the Dapparay Creek. Findings of Late Pleistocene animals in the south-east of Yakutia are quite rare, and for this reason the Dapparay mammoths are of great interest to science. Measurements of thirty two bones belonging to three mammoths were carried out. The morphometric characteristics of the Dapparay mammoths were compared with the measurements of the bones of the Berezovsky, Taimyr and Gydan mammoths. Based on the results of comparative studies of morphometric indicators, it was concluded that the mammoths that lived in southern Yakutia did not have significant differences from their northern relatives. This may indicate more or less uniform climatic conditions in their habitat zone.
Keywords
location,
woolly mammoth,
bone remains,
mammoth fauna,
central,
southern Yakutia,
Dapparay,
Late Pleistocene
Supporting agencies: This work was supported by the RFBR grant 18-45-140007 p_a
About the Author
A. I. Klimovsky
Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia)
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
KLIMOVSKY Aisen Ivanovich, Researcher, Department of Study of Mammoth Fauna
33 Lenin ave., Yakutsk, 677007
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Klimovsky A.I. The bone remains of Mammuthus primigenius from the vicinity of Dapparay village, Olekminsky District, Southern Yakutia. Arctic and Subarctic Natural Resources. 2020;25(2):69-82. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.31242/2618-9712-2020-25-2-5
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