Stable isotope abundances (13C, 15N) in collagen and soft tissues from Pleistocene mammals from Yakutia: Implications for the palaeobiology of the Mammoth Steppe

1996 ◽  
Vol 126 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 31-44 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hervé Bocherens ◽  
Gilles Pacaud ◽  
Petr A. Lazarev ◽  
André Mariotti
Keyword(s):  
Stable Isotope ◽  
Soft Tissues ◽  
Pleistocene Mammals

scholarly journals Radiocarbon Ages of Mammoths in Northern Eurasia: Implications for Population Development and Late Quaternary Environment

Radiocarbon ◽  
1997 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yurij Vasil'Chuk ◽  
Jaan-Mati Punning ◽  
Alla Vasil'Chuk
Keyword(s):  
Stable Isotope ◽  
Soft Tissues ◽  
Late Quaternary ◽  
Temporal Distribution ◽  
Entire Period ◽  
Northern Eurasia ◽  
Population Development ◽  
Plant Remains

Many mammoth remains have been radiocarbon-dated. We present here more than 360 14C dates on bones, tusks, molars and soft tissues of mammoths and discuss some issues connected with the evolution of mammoths and their environment: the problem of the last mammoth; mammoth taphonomy; the plant remains and stable isotope records accompanying mammoth fossils; paleoclimate during the time of the mammoths and dating of host sediments. The temporal distribution of the 14C dates of fossils from the northern Eurasian territory is even for the entire period from 40 to 10 ka bp.

scholarly journals The dark side of soft tissues: Unexpected inorganic carbonate in the invasive slipper limpet Crepidula fornicata and its implications for stable isotope interpretations

2018 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 107-115 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thibault Androuin ◽  
Stanislas F. Dubois ◽  
Priscilla Decottignies ◽  
Ewan Pelleter ◽  
Antoine Carlier
Keyword(s):  
Stable Isotope ◽  
Soft Tissues ◽  
Dark Side ◽  
Crepidula Fornicata ◽  
Inorganic Carbonate ◽  
Slipper Limpet

scholarly journals Elephant dung, chewed antlers, weathered bones: documenting a unique taphonomic collection

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Spyridoula Pappa ◽  
Neil Adams ◽  
Philippa Brewer ◽  
Simon Parfitt ◽  
Gillian Carnegie ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Soft Tissues ◽  
History Museum ◽  
Collection Management System ◽  
Northwest Europe ◽  
Entire Collection ◽  
The World ◽  
Reference Collection ◽  
New Locations ◽  
Preliminary Study ◽  
Pleistocene Mammals

The Antony John Sutcliffe Collection is a unique taphonomic reference collection held within the Department of Earth Sciences at the Natural History Museum (NHM). Sutcliffe was the Curator of Fossil Mammal at the NHM from 1957 to 1987, during which time he collected a large assemblage of modern comparative vertebrate material, including complete skulls, bones, teeth and soft tissues (skin and faeces) of numerous species from across the world including sites in East Africa, Canada, Alaska, Siberia and northwest Europe. Sutcliffe studied Pleistocene mammals and was particularly interested in the alterations to their remains after death and how they come to be fossilised, i.e., their taphonomy. The specimens were either collected during Sutcliffe’s own fieldwork or gifted to him by international colleagues, and are often accompanied by detailed notes on their provenance and original letters of donation. After a preliminary study in 2013, and given the value of the collection for future taphonomic studies, a curatorial project ran from 2015 to 2017 aiming to document the entire collection on EMu (the museum’s collection management system), recording the anatomy, taxonomy, previous and new locations within the museum, and any associated documentation of over 1500 specimens. Photographs of each object were included and all specimens have been registered, safely repacked and rehoused at Wandsworth museum store, where they are now accessible to researchers. The specimens have the potential to form curated taphonomic reference standards for use by researchers around the world.

scholarly journals Elephant dung, chewed antlers, weathered bones: documenting a unique taphonomic collection

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Spyridoula Pappa ◽  
Neil Adams ◽  
Philippa Brewer ◽  
Simon Parfitt ◽  
Gillian Carnegie ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Soft Tissues ◽  
History Museum ◽  
Collection Management System ◽  
Northwest Europe ◽  
Entire Collection ◽  
The World ◽  
Reference Collection ◽  
New Locations ◽  
Preliminary Study ◽  
Pleistocene Mammals

The Antony John Sutcliffe Collection is a unique taphonomic reference collection held within the Department of Earth Sciences at the Natural History Museum (NHM). Sutcliffe was the Curator of Fossil Mammal at the NHM from 1957 to 1987, during which time he collected a large assemblage of modern comparative vertebrate material, including complete skulls, bones, teeth and soft tissues (skin and faeces) of numerous species from across the world including sites in East Africa, Canada, Alaska, Siberia and northwest Europe. Sutcliffe studied Pleistocene mammals and was particularly interested in the alterations to their remains after death and how they come to be fossilised, i.e., their taphonomy. The specimens were either collected during Sutcliffe’s own fieldwork or gifted to him by international colleagues, and are often accompanied by detailed notes on their provenance and original letters of donation. After a preliminary study in 2013, and given the value of the collection for future taphonomic studies, a curatorial project ran from 2015 to 2017 aiming to document the entire collection on EMu (the museum’s collection management system), recording the anatomy, taxonomy, previous and new locations within the museum, and any associated documentation of over 1500 specimens. Photographs of each object were included and all specimens have been registered, safely repacked and rehoused at Wandsworth museum store, where they are now accessible to researchers. The specimens have the potential to form curated taphonomic reference standards for use by researchers around the world.

scholarly journals Parasitic diseases of woolly mammuth (Mammuthus primigenius Blumenbach, 1799)

2018 ◽  
Vol 322 (3) ◽  
pp. 306-314
Author(s):  
N.V. Serdyuk ◽  
E.N. Maschenko
Keyword(s):  
Soft Tissues ◽  
Parasitic Diseases ◽  
Internal Organs ◽  
Mammuthus Primigenius ◽  
Pleistocene Mammals ◽  
The Moment ◽  
Species Specific ◽  
Diverse Data ◽  
Steppe Bison ◽  
Woolly Mammoth

Paleontological studies are basically the studies of skeletal remains of organisms. However, the discovery of frozen mummies of Pleistocene mammals with preserved soft tissues and internal organs makes it possible to identify some features of animal biology that are inaccessible to the study of skeletons. Fossil frozen mummies become a valuable source of information on diet, seasons of death, migration and ecology, diseases, including parasitic diseases. The cases of detection of fossil parasites in the remains of Pleistocene mammals are always rare and random. Until recently there have been no dedicated effort to search for fossil parasites. Parasites of the Indigirka ground squirrel, the Egorov narrow-skull vole, the Pleistocene steppe bison, the Lena horse (Equus lenensis Russanov, 1968), and the woolly mammoth are known at the moment. This paper presents an overview of parasite finds in woolly mammoth Mammuthus primigenius (Blumenbach, 1799). For two centuries of studies of this species, a large volume of diverse data have been accumulated. The aim of this work was a making the review of cases of detection of parasites in mammoth. We discuss the specific cases of mammoth mummy studies, namely the Berezovka mammoth, the Shandrin mammoth, the Kirgilyakh mammoth, the Sopochnaya Karga Mammoth. As a result, the presence of following ectoparasites of the order Diptera was established: Cobboldia (Mamontia) russanovi Grunin, 1973, and Protophormia terraenovae Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830. The stomach botfly Cobboldia (Mamontia) russanovi is highly specific ectoparasite of woolly mammoth. Also helminths of classes Nematoda and Cestoda were found in the mammoth mummies. At the present, it is not possible to reliably determine the species-specific endoparasite of woolly mammoth.

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