First Finding of a Mammoth Female(Mammuthusprimigenius Blum.) on the Taimyr Peninsula

摘要

The first finding of a mammoth female skeleton from the Kastykhtakh River valley, Taimyr Pen?insula, is described. The skeleton consists of 104 elements including the skull and lower jaw; small distal limb bones, tail vertebrae, and one tusk are absent. There are teeth of the two last changes in the jaws. The skeleton elements have individual features: sigmoid contact of the low second and third molars, crack in the neural arch of the atlas, and false joint and calluses on places of the rib fractures. The calibrated radiocarbon dating of the tubular bone is 32 070—30 565 yr (Kargin interglacial time).