Specific characters of the mammoth calf (Mammuthus primigenius) from the Khroma River (Yakutia)

Biology Bulletin

Volumn 40, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 626-641

  Mashchenko, E N ^a   Protopopov, A V ^b   Plotnikov, V V ^c   Pavlov, I S ^d  

^a PALEONTOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^b Russian Federal Service for Surveillance of Consumer Rights Protection and Human Wellbeing   (Russian Federation)

^c Yaroslavskii Institute of Applied Ecology of the North   (Russian Federation)

^d Yroslavskii Yakutian United Museum of History and Culture of Peoples of the North   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Late Pleistocene; Mammuthus primigenius; morphology; ontogenesis; Proboscidea

Indexed keywords

EID: 84887351162     PISSN: 10623590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1134/S1062359013070042     Document Type: Article

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