Living environments and diet of the Mongochen mammoth, Gydan Peninsula, Russia

摘要: Remains of a male woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius Blumenbach, 1799), radiocarbon dated to cal. 18,370 14 C BP, were discovered in perennially frozen deposits northern West Siberia (Gydan Peninsula, 72 � 10 0 N, 79 35 E). Microfossil and macrofossil samples from the inner part intestinal content, coat skull taken carcass enclosing studied for purpose reconstructing mammoth’s diet, season death, its living environments. Pollen, biomorphs plant macrofossils indicate that grasses sedges main food items, supplemented with small amounts dwarf birch larch twigs variety herbs mosses. The remains found intestines animal died middle summer. lived cold tundra-like environment sedgegrass shrub communities scattered stands.