The diet and environment of mammoths in North-East Russia reconstructed from the contents of their feces

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作者
Kirillova, Irina V. [1 ]
Argant, J. [2 ]
Lapteva, E. G. [3 ]
Korona, O. M. [3 ]
van der Plicht, J. [4 ,8 ]
Zinovyev, E. V. [3 ]
Kotov, A. A. [5 ]
Chernova, O. F. [5 ]
Fadeeva, E. O. [5 ]
Baturina, O. A. [6 ]
Kabilov, M. R. [6 ]
Shidlovskiy, F. K. [1 ]
Zanina, O. G. [7 ]
机构
[1] Ice Age Museum, Natl Alliance Shidlovskiy Ice Age, Bldg 119, Moscow 129223, Russia
[2] Aix Marseille Univ, CNRS, MCC, Maison Mediterraneenne Sci Homme,LAMPEA UMR 7269, 5 Rue Chateau Horloge,BP 647, F-13094 Aix En Provence, France
[3] Russian Acad Sci, Ural Branch, Inst Plant & Anim Ecol, Bldg 202,Ul 8 Go Marta, Ekaterinburg 620144, Russia
[4] Univ Groningen, Ctr Isotope Res, Nijenborgh 4, NL-9747 AG Groningen, Netherlands
[5] Russian Acad Sci, AN Severtsov Inst Ecol & Evolut, Bldg 33, Moscow 119071, Russia
[6] Russian Acad Sci, Siberian Branch, Inst Chem Biol & Fundamental Med, Bldg 8,Lavrentyev Av, Novosibirsk 630090, Russia
[7] Inst Physicochem & Biol Problems Soil Sci, Bldg 2,Ul Inst Skaya, Pushchino 142290, Moscow Region, Russia
[8] Leiden Univ, Fac Archaeol, Einsteinweg 2, NL-2333 CC Leiden, Netherlands
基金
俄罗斯基础研究基金会; 俄罗斯科学基金会;
关键词
Diet; Environment; Pastures; Ice Age biota; N-E Russia; Dating; PENINSULA; RADIOCARBON; SEQUENCES;
D O I
10.1016/j.quaint.2015.11.002
中图分类号
P9 [自然地理学];
学科分类号
0705 ; 070501 ;
摘要
Mammoth feces from northern Yakutia and western Chukotka were investigated in a multidisciplinary study. Radiocarbon dating of the Yakutian mammoth dung yielded ca 42 ka BP and the age of the feces from Chukotka is older than 45 ka BP. The two sites are located about 15,000 km from each other and have a different geological setting. Most plant remains in the dung of both mammoths were grasses and sedges, with some other herbs and dwarf shrubs in addition. The pastures were situated in varying treeless shrubby landscapes: herbegrass associations of meadows, wormwood and shrub biotopes on slopes, in valleys and at watersheds. Besides plant remains and hairs of large herbivore mammals, the feces also contained feathers of Anseriformes, fragments of beetles and flies, ephippia of Cladocera, diatoms, remains of testate amoebae and ascospores of coprophilous fungi from pasture cenoses. (C) 2015 Elsevier Ltd and INQUA. All rights reserved.
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页码:147 / 161
页数:15
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