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Abstract <p>The article presents the results of study of microfossils from the content of the gastrointestinal tract and material between the pressed forelimbs of a frozen mummified corpse of a mammoth calf <i>Mammuthus primigenius</i> (Blumenbach, 1799) thawed from a buried soil (MIS 5e, 130–110 ka) at the Batagay section (Yakutia). The reconstructed vegetation cover at the time of the animal death was dominated by sparse larch forests with a shrub layer consisting of dwarf birch, alder, and willow. Under the canopy of these forests, as well as in the depressions near the waterbodies, sedge-cotton grass, sedge–forb, and sedge–moss associations were common together with dwarf birch and willow thickets, where the mammoth calf probably grazed shortly before its death. The basis of its food consisted of sedges and cotton grass and, to a lesser extent, grasses, forbs, and moss, which were captured when pulling out grass, as well as the larch bark.</p>

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Late Neopleistocene Vegetation and Environments of the Mammoth Calf Yana (Mammuthus primigenius (Blumenbach, 1799)) in the Batagay Section (Yakutia) Based on Microfossil Data

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    2026年4月30日

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  • O. G. Zanina,
  • D. A. Lopatina,
  • G. P. Novgorodov,
  • M. Yu. Cheprasov

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Abstract

The article presents the results of study of microfossils from the content of the gastrointestinal tract and material between the pressed forelimbs of a frozen mummified corpse of a mammoth calf Mammuthus primigenius (Blumenbach, 1799) thawed from a buried soil (MIS 5e, 130–110 ka) at the Batagay section (Yakutia). The reconstructed vegetation cover at the time of the animal death was dominated by sparse larch forests with a shrub layer consisting of dwarf birch, alder, and willow. Under the canopy of these forests, as well as in the depressions near the waterbodies, sedge-cotton grass, sedge–forb, and sedge–moss associations were common together with dwarf birch and willow thickets, where the mammoth calf probably grazed shortly before its death. The basis of its food consisted of sedges and cotton grass and, to a lesser extent, grasses, forbs, and moss, which were captured when pulling out grass, as well as the larch bark.