Study of Pollen and Spores from the Stomach of a Fossil WoollyRhinoceros Found in the Lower Reaches of the Kolyma River

摘要

As was reported earlier [1, 2], in June 2007, a frozen mummy of an adult female woolly rhinoceros(Coelodonta antiquitatis, Blum., 1799) was found at agoldmine near the Cherskii settlement of the Nizhnekolymskii raion of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia)(68°46' N, 161°38' E). A study of the stomach contentsof the fossilized rhinoceros using palynological methods with the aim of establishing the particularities of itsdiet and recreating the paleofloristic conditions of theperiod of its existence was of great interest.