History of Studies of the Female Woolly Mammoth Mummy Yuka (Mammuthus primigenius (Blumenbach, 1799))

A well-preserved molar of a woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius) was recovered from deposits at Chestermere Lake near Calgary. It is probably of late Wisconsin age, and is one of several mammoth fossils collected from Pleistocene sediments in the Calgary area.The Chestermere Lake specimen is considered in relation to 94 records of mammoth cheek teeth from the western Canadian provinces. Of the 94 records, 5 are from Manitoba, 35 are from Saskatchewan, 37 are from Alberta, and 17 are from British Columbia. In addition to specimens of woolly mammoths, remains of Columbian (Mammuthus columbi), imperial (Mammuthus imperator), and southern mammoths (Mammuthus meridionalis) have been collected from Pleistocene deposits of southwestern Canada. Some problems concerning the relationships of North American and Eurasian mammoths are mentioned.

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A mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius) tooth from late Wisconsin deposits near Embden, North Dakota, and comments on the distribution of woolly mammoths south of the Wisconsin ice sheets

Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences ◽

10.1139/e86-092 ◽

1986 ◽

Vol 23 (7) ◽

pp. 909-918 ◽

Cited By ~ 15

Author(s):

C. R. Harington ◽

Allan C. Ashworth

Keyword(s):

British Columbia ◽

Continental Shelf ◽

North Dakota ◽

Third Molar ◽

Ice Sheets ◽

Lake Agassiz ◽

Mammuthus Primigenius ◽

Sand And Gravel ◽

Woolly Mammoth ◽

Cass County

A well-preserved third molar of a woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius) was recovered from sand and gravel forming the highest (Herman) prominent strandline of Lake Agassiz near Embden in western Cass County, North Dakota. The Herman strandline is estimated to have formed about 11 500 years BP, and presumably the tooth is of similar age. Perhaps the animal lived in a tundra-like area near the Lake Agassiz shoreline.Additional evidence suggests that woolly mammoths occupied a tundra-like range south of the Wisconsin ice sheets extending from southern British Columbia to the Atlantic continental shelf off Virginia.

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AMS 14C chronology of the world's southernmost woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius Blum.)

Quaternary Science Reviews ◽

10.1016/j.quascirev.2006.12.001 ◽

2007 ◽

Vol 26 (7-8) ◽

pp. 954-957 ◽

Cited By ~ 20

Author(s):

Keiichi Takahashi ◽

Guangbiao Wei ◽

Hikaru Uno ◽

Minoru Yoneda ◽

Changzhu Jin ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Mammuthus Primigenius ◽

Woolly Mammoth

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A grizzly bear from the Middle Wisconsin of Woodbridge, Ontario

Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences ◽

10.1139/e76-036 ◽

1976 ◽

Vol 13 (2) ◽

pp. 341-347 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Charles S. Churcher ◽

Alan V. Morgan

Keyword(s):

Ursus Arctos ◽

Grizzly Bears ◽

Grizzly Bear ◽

Bone Fragment ◽

Mammuthus Primigenius ◽

Ursus Arctos Horribilis ◽

Before And After ◽

Lake Simcoe ◽

Left Humerus ◽

Woolly Mammoth

The distal end of the left humerus of a grizzly bear, Ursus arctos, has been recovered from above the Early Wisconsin Sunnybrook Till at Woodbridge, Ontario, from the same horizon that previously has yielded remains of the woolly mammoth, Mammuthus primigenius. The age of these specimens is estimated at 40 000–50 000 years BP, within the mid-Wisconsin, Port Talbot Interstadial. The only other recognized Canadian record of a grizzly bear east of Manitoba is from a gravel sequence at Barrie, near Lake Simcoe, Ontario, dated from a bone fragment to 11 700 ± 250 years BP. A specimen recovered in Toronto in 1913 from an Early Wisconsin horizon is also considered to represent the grizzly. Bears of the grizzly type, Ursus arctos-horribilis were present in Ontario before and after the Early and Late Wisconsin ice advances.

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To the 100th anniversary of Vadim Evgen’evich Garutt (October 12, 1917 – March 28, 2002)

Proceedings of the Zoological Institute RAS ◽

10.31610/trudyzin/2018.322.3.205 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 322 (3) ◽

pp. 205-214

Author(s):

V.S. Baygusheva ◽

I.V. Foronova ◽

S.V. Semenova

Keyword(s):

Soviet Union ◽

Former Soviet Union ◽

Western Europe ◽

100Th Anniversary ◽

Northern Eurasia ◽

Mammuthus Primigenius ◽

Origin And Evolution ◽

Scientific Papers ◽

Academy Of Sciences ◽

Woolly Mammoth

The article contains a biography of the famous Russian paleontologist V.E. Garutt (1917–2002), the oldest research worker of the Zoological institute of Russian Academy of Sciences, who studied the Pleistocene elephants of Northern Eurasia. He published more than 70 scientific papers on the origin and evolution of elephants of mammoth line, the morphology, changeability and features of the development of ancient proboscides. V.E. Garutt suggested two subfamilies Primelephantinae and Loxodontinae. He is the author of several taxa of fossil elephants of the generic, specific and subspecific levels. On his initiative, the skeleton of the Taimyr mammoth was adopted as the neotype of the woolly mammoth Mammuthus primigenius. He actively defended the independence of the genus Archidiskodon. A number of famous and important for the science paleontological specimens (skulls and skeletons of southern elephants, trogontherine and woolly mammoths, woolly rhinoceroses and elasmotherium) were restored and mounted by V.E. Garutt. They adorn a number of museums and institutes in Russia (St. Petersburg, Stavropol, Pyatigorsk, Azov, Rostov-on-Don) and abroad (Tbilisi, Vilnius, Edersleben, Sangerhausen). In addition, V.E. Garutt was an active popularizer of paleontological science. He collected a scientific archive on the remains of elephants from many regions of the former Soviet Union and some countries of Western Europe, which is now stored in the Azov museum-reserve (Azov). Several grateful pupils began their way in paleontology under the leader ship of V.E. Garutt. And they continue active work nowadays.

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Impact of climate and humans on the range dynamics of the woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius) in Europe during MIS 2

Quaternary Research ◽

10.1017/qua.2018.54 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 90 (3) ◽

pp. 439-456 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Adam Nadachowski ◽

Grzegorz Lipecki ◽

Mateusz Baca ◽

Michał Żmihorski ◽

Jarosław Wilczyński

Keyword(s):

East European Plain ◽

Population Fluctuations ◽

Mammuthus Primigenius ◽

Radiocarbon Dates ◽

Oxygen Isotope Stage ◽

Maximum Expansion ◽

East European ◽

The North ◽

Almost All ◽

Woolly Mammoth

AbstractThe woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius) was widespread in almost all of Europe during the late Pleistocene. However, its distribution changed because of population fluctuations and range expansions and reductions. During Marine Oxygen Isotope Stage 2 (MIS 2), these processes were highly dynamic. Our analyses of 318 radiocarbon dates from 162 localities, obtained directly from mammoth material, confirmed important changes in mammoth range between ~28.6 and ~14.1 ka. The Greenland stadial 3 interval (27.5–23.3 ka) was the time of maximum expansion of the mammoth in Europe during MIS 2. The continuous range was soon fragmented and reduced, resulting in the disappearance of Mammuthus during the last glacial maximum from ~21.4 to ~19.2 ka in all parts of the North European Plain. It is not clear whether mammoths survived in the East European Plain. The mammoth returned to Europe soon after ~19.0 ka, and for the next 3–4 millennia played an important role in the lifeways of Epigravettian societies in eastern Europe. Mammoths became extinct in most of Europe by ~14.0 ka, except for core areas such as the far northeast of Europe, where they survived until the beginning of the Holocene. No significant correlation was found between the distribution of the mammoth in Europe and human activity.

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Mammoths, Deer, and a Dog: Fossil and (Sub) Recent Allochthonous Remains from the Northeastern Croatia (Podravina Region), with the First Radiocarbon Dating of the Croatian Woolly Mammoths (Mammuthus primigenius)

Quaternary ◽

10.3390/quat1020011 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 1 (2) ◽

pp. 11 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Jadranka Mauch Lenardić ◽

Siniša Radović ◽

Ankica Oros Sršen ◽

Nada Horvatinčić ◽

Petar Kostešić ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Late Pleistocene ◽

Cervus Elaphus ◽

Red Deer ◽

Pannonian Basin ◽

Canis Familiaris ◽

Mammuthus Primigenius ◽

Maxillary Bone ◽

Fluvial Deposits ◽

Animal Remains ◽

Woolly Mammoth

Eight anatomically and taxonomically different finds are presented in this paper, and they belong to four taxa: woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius), giant deer (Megaloceros giganteus), red deer (Cervus elaphus), and dog (Canis familiaris). All specimens represent allochthonous Late Pleistocene and Holocene animal remains, and all were dredged during the gravel exploitation at the Sekuline site near Molve (Podravina region, SW Pannonian basin, NE Croatia). Mammoth remains (bone and tusk fragments) were radiocarbon dated, and these are the first absolute dates on mammoths in Croatia. One upper last left deciduous premolar (dP4 sin.) also belongs to the same species. Ascribed to a dog is one well-preserved skull with a peculiar abscess scar on the maxillary bone as the result of an inflammatory process on the carnassial (P4) premolar. The Late Pleistocene cervid remains are giant deer, while the other cervid finds were determined to be red deer of the Holocene age. Morphometrical and taphonomical data are presented for each specimen. Such fossil and recent bone/tooth aggregates are characteristic of fluvial deposits and selective collecting. Although lacking stratigraphic provenance, these finds help to fulfil the gaps in palaeoenvironmental, palaeoecological, and palaeoclimate reconstructions of Podravina and its neighbouring areas.

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Proboscidean origins of mastodon and woolly mammoth demonstrated immunologically

Paleobiology ◽

10.1017/s0094837300011714 ◽

1985 ◽

Vol 11 (4) ◽

pp. 429-437 ◽

Cited By ~ 29

Author(s):

Jeheskel Shoshani ◽

Jerold M. Lowenstein ◽

Daniel A. Walz ◽

Morris Goodman

Keyword(s):

Radiocarbon Dating ◽

Serum Proteins ◽

Loxodonta Africana ◽

Elephas Maximus ◽

Chronological Age ◽

Mammuthus Primigenius ◽

Reactive Protein ◽

First Time ◽

Mammut Americanum ◽

Woolly Mammoth

Immunologically reactive protein substances were extracted from bone samples of an American mastodon (Mammut americanum), 10,200 yr old by radiocarbon dating, and from muscle samples of three woolly mammoths (Mammuthus primigenius), 10,000, 40,000 and 53,000 yr old, respectively. The mastodon samples contained significant quantities of the amino acids hydroxylysine and hydroxyproline, both of which are usually found in collagens and not in albumins. Using these products and other comparable extracts, as well as sera and purified collagens from modern elephants and other living mammals, as test antigens, immunological comparisons were carried out with the following antisera: rabbit anti-mastodon bone; chicken anti-mammoth muscle; chicken anti-elephant muscle; rabbit anti-elephant albumin and rabbit anti-elephant collagen, as well as with rabbit antisera to purified albumins and collagens of other mammals. For the first time, mastodon bone was found to have elephant-like proteins, which elicited antibodies that reacted strongly with collagen and serum proteins of extant elephants. Mammoth muscle strongly reacted with anti-elephant collagen and anti-elephant albumin, but the concentrations of the recoverable mammoth collagen and albumin decreased with increasing chronological age of the mammoth specimens. Nevertheless, in the immunological comparisons, the mammoth was closer to Asian (Elephas maximus) and African (Loxodonta africana) elephants than to the mastodon; in turn, the mastodon was closer to these elephantid species than to mammals outside the order Proboscidea.

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