A woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius) carcass from Maly Lyakhovsky Island (New Siberian Islands, Russian Federation)
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GRIGORIEV, Semen, OBADA, Theodor F.. A woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius) carcass from Maly Lyakhovsky Island (New Siberian Islands, Russian Federation). In: Quaternary International, 2017, nr. 445, pp. 89-103. ISSN 1040-6182. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2017.01.007
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Quaternary International
Numărul 445 / 2017 / ISSN 1040-6182 /ISSNe 1873-4553

A woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius) carcass from Maly Lyakhovsky Island (New Siberian Islands, Russian Federation)

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2017.01.007

Pag. 89-103

Grigoriev Semen1, Obada Theodor F.2
 
1 Ammosov North-Eastern Federal University ,
2 Institute of Zoology ASM
 
 
Disponibil în IBN: 16 februarie 2018


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A partial carcass of an adult woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius) found in 2012 on Maly Lyakhovsky Island presents a new opportunity to retrieve associated anatomical, morphological, and life history data on this important component of Pleistocene biotas. In addition, we address hematological, histological, and microbiological issues that relate directly to quality of preservation. Recovered by staff from North-Eastern Federal University in Yakutsk, this individual is a relatively old female preserving soft tissue of the anteroventral portion of the head, most of both fore-quarters, and the ventral aspect of much of the rest of the body. Both tusks were recovered and subjected to computed tomographic analysis in which annual dentin increments were revealed as cycles of variation in X-ray attenuation. Measurements of annual increment areas (in longitudinal section) display a pulsed pattern of tusk growth showing cycles of growth rate variation over periods of 3–5 years. These intervals are interpreted as calving cycles reflecting regular shifts in calcium and phosphate demand for tusk growth vs. fetal ossification and lactation. Brown liquid associated with the frozen carcass turned out to include remains of hemolyzed blood, and blood samples examined microscopically included white blood cells with preserved nuclei. Muscle tissue from the trunk was unusually well preserved, even at the histological level. Intestinal contents and tissue samples were investigated microbiologically, and several strains of lactic-acid bacteria (e.g., Enterococcus faecium, Enterococcus hirae) that are widely distributed as commensal organisms in the intestines of herbivores were isolated.

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Late Pleistocene, Life history, Mammuthus primigenius,

Maly Lyakhovsky Island, Permafrost Soft tissue preservation