Where: Respublika Saha (Jakutija), Russian Federation (69.0° N, 161.0° E: paleocoordinates 69.0° N, 161.0° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)
• Upper Pleistocene, Riß/Würm and Würm; Aljoschka-Suite is younger than Early Alassy deposits and Jedoma-Suite
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; unlithified sandstone
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 48592: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Susanna Kümmell on 24.03.2005
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Lepus cf. tanaiticus hare | |
Rangifer tarandus Linnaeus 1758 reindeer | |
"Saiga ricei" = Saiga tatarica, Bison priscus
"Saiga ricei" = Saiga tatarica Linnaeus 1758 saiga | |
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Mammuthus primigenius Blumenbach 1799 wooly mammoth |