List of Mammoth Specimens
List of Notable Individual Fossil or Subfossil Mammoth Remains
Name: Adams Mammoth
Location of Discovery: Mouth of the Lena River, Siberia
Date of Discovery: 1799
Age of remains in radiocarbon years BP: 35,800±1200
Comments: It is the first complete mammoth skeleton ever to be reconstructed. Originally, it was an entire mummified mammoth carcass.
Name: Beresovka Mammoth
Location of Discovery: Berezovka River, Siberia
Date of Discovery: 1900
Age of remains in radiocarbon years BP: 44,000±3,500
Comments: Except for the head, it is an almost wholly preserved, mummified mammoth carcass.
Name: Fairbanks Creek Mammoth (Effie)
Location of Discovery: Fairbanks Creek near Fairbanks, Alaska
Date of Discovery: 1948
Age of remains in radiocarbon years BP: 21,300±1,300
Comments: It consists of the mummified head, trunk, and left forelimb of a mammoth calf. It was recovered from a muck near a prehistoric scraper.
Name: Fishhook Mammoth
Location of Discovery: Shoreline banks of the estuary of the Upper Taimyra River, Taymyr Peninsula, Siberian Federal District.
Date of Discovery: 1990-1992
Age of remains in radiocarbon years BP: 20,620±70
Comments: Partial woolly mammoth carcass
Name: Malolyakhovsky Mammoth Buttercup
Location of Discovery: Maly Lyakhovsky Island of the New Siberian Islands archipelago
Date of Discovery: 2012
Age of remains in radiocarbon years BP: 28,610±110
Comments: While many mammoths found in permafrost are dried up and mummified, "this was really juicy," said Herridge, who likened the appearance of the muscle to a "piece of steak — bright red when you cut into the flesh and then as it hit the air, it would go brown."
Name: Sopkarga Mammoth (Zhenya)
Location of Discovery: Taymyr Peninsula, Siberian Federal District
Date of Discovery: August 28, 2012
Age of remains in radiocarbon years BP: 43,350±240
Comments: The Sopkarga Mammoth (Zhenya) was found on the right bank of the Yenisei River about 3 km north of the Sopochnaya Karga Meteorological Station on Sopochnaya Karga Cape. Zhenya is the diminutive of the name of the 11-year-old boy who discovered it.
Name: Yuka Mammoth
Location of Discovery: Oyagossky Yar coast, 30 km west of the mouth of the Kondratieva River near Yukagir, Siberia.
Date of Discovery: August 2010
Age of remains in radiocarbon years BP: 34,300+260/−240
Comments: The Yuka mammoth corpse consists of about 95% of its hide, and soft tissues around limbs were preserved in an articulated position. This female mammoth calf was nicknamed 'Yuka' after the village of Yukagir, whose local people discovered it.
Name: Yukagir mammoth
Location of Discovery: Northern Yakutia, Arctic Siberia, Russia
Date of Discovery: Autumn of 2002
Age of remains in radiocarbon years BP: 22,500 cal. BP
Comments: Notably well-preserved head, which revealed that woolly mammoths had temporal glands between the ear and the eye
Name: Jarkov Mammoth
Location of Discovery: Taymyr Peninsula, Siberian Federal District
Date of Discovery: July 1997
Age of remains in radiocarbon years BP: 20,390±160
Comments: Found by members of the Jarkov family, who are Dolgan reindeer herders.
Name: Nun cho ga mammoth
Location of Discovery: Yukon, Trʼondëk Hwëchʼin First Nation, Canada
Date of Discovery: June 21, 2022
Age of remains in radiocarbon years BP: greater than 30,000.
Comments: Considered the most complete mummified mammoth found in North America, and only the second such find in the world of a calf since Effie (1948). Also roughly the same size as Lyuba (2007).
Name: Kirgilyakh (Magadan) Mammoth (Dima)
Location of Discovery: Northeast Siberia, near Kirgilyakh Creek in the Upper Kolyma basin
Date of Discovery: June 23, 1977
Age of remains in radiocarbon years BP: 41,000±900
Comments: The discovery of the frozen carcass of the Kirgilyakh (Magadan) Mammoth or Dima provided the first opportunity for a detailed study of the anatomy of a mammoth calf.
Name: Lyuba Mammoth
Location of Discovery: Near the Yuribei River on the Yamal Peninsula in northwest Siberia.
Date of Discovery: May 2007
Age of remains in radiocarbon years BP: 41,700+700/-550
Comments: Lyuba is regarded to be the most complete and best-preserved mammoth calf discovered. It is nicknamed Lyuba after the diminutive of the name of the wife of the reindeer herder who discovered it.
Name: Khroma Mammoth
Location of Discovery: Allaikhovskii District, Yakutia, Khroma River
Date of Discovery: October 2008
Age of remains in radiocarbon years BP: greater than 45,000
Comments: Khroma is very well preserved except for the absence of a trunk.
List of Significant Fossil or Subfossil Mammoth Bone Accumulations:
Name: Achchagyi–Allaikha mass accumulation
Location of Discovery: Achchagyi–Allaikha stream, Yana-Indighirka coastal lowlands, Siberia.
Date of Discovery: 1987
Age of remains in radiocarbon years BP: 12,490±80 to 12,400±60 BP., C14
Comments: The concentration of bones in the Achchagyi–Allaikha mass accumulation was likely a result of the simultaneous deaths of a large number of animals within herd family groups in one or several seasons. The formation of this mass accumulation is argued to be a direct consequence of short but strong climatic warming (Bølling oscillation) and associated unfavorable environmental conditions.
Name: Berelyokh mass accumulation
Location of Discovery: Byoryolyokh River, Yana-Indighirka coastal lowlands, Siberia.
Date of Discovery: 1947
Age of remains in radiocarbon years BP: 12,720±100 to 11,900±50 BP., C14
Comments: The concentration of bones in the Berelyokh mass accumulation was likely a result of the simultaneous deaths of a large number of animals within herd-family groups in one or several seasons. The formation of this mass accumulation is argued to be a direct consequence of short but strong climatic warming (Bølling oscillation) and associated unfavorable environmental conditions.
Name: Condover site
Location of Discovery: Norton Farm Pit, Condover, south of Shrewsbury, United Kingdom.
Date of Discovery: 1986
Age of remains in radiocarbon years BP: circa 12,300 BP., C14, Greenland Interstadial 1
Comments: Remains of several mammoths trapped in glacial kettle-hole
Name: The Mammoth Site
Location of Discovery: Hot Springs, South Dakota
Date of Discovery: 1974
Age of remains in radiocarbon years BP: Greater than 26,000 B.P, C14
Comments: As of 2016, the remains of 58 North American Columbian and 3 woolly mammoths have been found within pond sediments filling an ancient sinkhole.
Name: Waco Mammoth National Monument
Location of Discovery: Waco, Texas
Date of Discovery: 1978
Age of remains in radiocarbon years BP: 66,800±5,000 BP, calendar
Comments: As of 2016, two bone beds have yielded 25 Columbian mammoths, a western camel, a saber-toothed cat, a coyote, a dwarf pronghorn, a bison, a horse, a peccary, an American alligator, a tortoise, various freshwater turtles, freshwater drum, and gar.
Name: Mammoth Central
Location of Discovery: Santa Lucía, Mexico
Date of Discovery: 2020
Comments: As of 2020, at least 200 Columbian mammoths as well as 25 camels and five horses.
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