A Late Pleistocene woolly mammoth from Lower Silesia, SW Poland
| Autor: | A. Mikolajczyk, Alina Krzemińska, Joanna Zych, A. Wisniewski, Piotr Wojtal, Krzysztof Stefaniak, Greg Skrzypek |
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| Předmět: |
Mammuthus primigenius
biology Pleistocene Woolly mammoth Materials Science (miscellaneous) biology.organism_classification Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering Isotopes of oxygen law.invention Paleontology law Air temperature Radiocarbon dating Business and International Management Geology Mammoth |
| Zdroj: | University of Western Australia |
| Popis: | The well-preserved remains (74 bones) of a woolly mammoth Mammuthus primigenius were discovered in Vistulian (Weichselian) sediments in the vicinity of Zas- tru?e neararow, Lower Silesia, Poland. The mammoth female, ~18-50 years old, died from unknown reason on a muddy slope of a periglacial valley and was quickly buried in sediments of ~24 ka age. The results of the stable oxygen isotope analyses of bone phos- phates indicate that more than one individual might have been buried at this site. The calculated stable oxygen isotope composition of water drunk by the Zastru?e mammoth/s during its/their lifetime was -10.8±0.4‰, reflecting an approximate annual mean air temperature around 6.6±0.8°C |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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