Lower part of Kolyma River, Aljoschka-Suite (Pleistocene of Russian Federation)

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
 Proboscidea - Elephantidae
Mammuthus primigenius Blumenbach 1799 wooly mammoth
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
Equus caballus Linnaeus 1758 horse
very small form
 Artiodactyla - Cervidae
Rangifer tarandus Linnaeus 1758 reindeer
 Artiodactyla - Bovidae
Bison priscus, "Saiga ricei" = Saiga tatarica
Bison priscus Bojanus 1827 bison
very small form
"Saiga ricei" = Saiga tatarica Linnaeus 1758 saiga
 Lagomorpha - Leporidae