Woolly rhino discovery in the lower Kolyma River

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 30, Issue 17-18, 2011, Pages 2262-2272

  Boeskorov, Gennady G ^a   Lazarev, Peter A ^b   Sher, Andrei V ^c   Davydov, Sergei P ^d   Bakulina, Nadezhda T ^e   Shchelchkova, Marina V ^f   Binladen, Jonas ^g   Willerslev, Eske ^g   Buigues, Bernard ^h   Tikhonov, Alexey N ⁱ  

^a DIAMOND AND PRECIOUS METAL GEOLOGY INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^b Institute of Applied Ecology of the North   (Russian Federation)

^c SEVERTSOV INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION   (Russian Federation)

^d PACIFIC INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHY   (Russian Federation)

^e State Mine Geological Company Yakutskgeologia   (Russian Federation)

^f NORTH EASTERN FEDERAL UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^g UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^h 1 Universitetskaya naberezhnaya ^*  (France)

ⁱ ZOOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Kolyma River; Late Pleistocene; Mummified corpse; North eastern Siberia; Permafrost; Woolly rhinoceros

Indexed keywords

KOLYMA RIVER; LATE PLEISTOCENE; MUMMIFIED CORPSE; NORTH-EASTERN SIBERIA; WOOLLY RHINOCEROS;

PERMAFROST;

RIVERS;

FOSSIL RECORD; GRASS; MAMMAL; PALEONTOLOGY; PERMAFROST; PLEISTOCENE; SKELETAL REMAINS; SKIN; STOMACH CONTENT;

KOLYMA RIVER; RUSSIAN FEDERATION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); COELODONTA ANTIQUITATIS; POACEAE;

EID: 80051472678     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2011.02.010     Document Type: Article

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