Also known as Shandrin mammoth
Where: Sakha, Russian Federation (70.4° N, 152.3° E: paleocoordinates 70.4° N, 152.3° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; unlithified siltstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: soft parts
Collected by B.S. Russanov in 1972
• Repository: Zoological Institute, Akademii Nauk SSSR (for fly larvae at least)
Primary reference: K. Y. Grunin. 1973. Pervaya nakhodka lichinok zheludochnogo ovoda mamonta - Cobboldia (Mamontia, subgen. n.) russanovi, sp. n. (Diptera, Gasterophilidae). Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie 52:228-233 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 164185: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 24.11.2014
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Mammuthus primigenius Blumenbach 1799 wooly mammoth | |
Insecta | |
Cobboldia (Mamontia) russanovi n. sp. Grunin 1973 bot fly |