Maly Anjuj, Utka layers (Pleistocene of Russian Federation)

Where: Respublika Saha (Jakutija), Russian Federation (68.4° N, 161.0° E: paleocoordinates 68.4° N, 161.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Middle Pleistocene (0.8 - 0.1 Ma)

• Probably Late Middle Pleistocene, Mindel/Riß and Riß

Environment/lithology: terrestrial

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: bulk,

Primary reference: A. W. Sher. 1971. Säugetierfunde und Pleistozänstratigraphie in der Kolyma-Niederung (Pleistocene stratigraphy from the Kolyma fluvial plain and it's mammal fossils). Berichte der deutschen Gesellschaft für geologische Wissenschaften A, Geologie und Paläontologie 16(2):113-125 [J. Alroy/S. Kuemmell/S. Kuemmell]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 48581: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Susanna Kümmell on 24.03.2005

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Lagomorpha - Ochotonidae
Ochotona sp. Link 1795 pika
 Rodentia - Cricetidae
Dicrostonyx cf. torquatus Pallas 1778 Arctic lemming
Microtus cf. oeconomus Pallas 1776 tundra vole
it was written: M. oequonomus
 Artiodactyla - Cervidae
Alces sp. Gray 1821 moose
big form
Rangifer tarandus Linnaeus 1758 reindeer
 Artiodactyla - Bovidae
Bison sp. Hamilton-Smith 1827 bison
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
Equus caballus Linnaeus 1758 horse
big form
 Proboscidea - Elephantidae
Mammuthus primigenius Blumenbach 1799 wooly mammoth
early form