This list covers mammoth remains which are either notable in their history or preservation. Mass accumulations of mammoth remains are included in the latter portion of this list.
List of notable individual fossil or subfossil mammoth remains
Name Image Location of discovery Date of discovery Age of remains inradiocarbon years BP Comments Adams mammoth Mouth of the Lena River, SiberiaIacumin, P., Davanzo, S. and Nikolaev, V., 2006. Spatial and temporal variations in the 13 C/12 C and 15 N/14 N ratios of mammoth hairs: palaeodiet and palaeoclimatic implications. Chemical Geology, 231(1), pp.16-25. 35,800Bishop, S., and Burns, P., 1998-2016, Mammoths: Evidence of Catastrophe? TalkOrigins Archive. Access Date October 2, 2017 It is the first complete mammoth skeleton ever to be reconstructed. Originally, it was an entire mummified mammoth carcass.Cohen, C., 2002. The Fate of the Mammoth: Fossils, Myth, and History. University of Chicago Press. 336 pp. Beresovka Mammoth Berezovka River, SiberiaUkraintseva, V.V., Agenbroad, L.D., Mead, J.I. and Hevly, R.H., 1993. Vegetation cover and environment of the "Mammoth Epoch," Siberia. The Mammoth Site of Hot Springs, Rapid City, South Dakota. 44,000 Except for the head, it is an almost wholly preserved, mummified mammoth carcass. Effie / Fairbanks Creek MammothAnthony, H.E., 1947. Nature's deep freeze. Natural History, 58, p. 269-301.Péwé, T.L., 1975. Quaternary Geology of Alaska. U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper, 835, 245 p. Fairbanks Creek near Fairbanks, Alaska 21,300±1,300 (1948), >28,000 (1951), 31,400±2,040 (1965) It consists of the mummified head, trunk, and left forelimb of a mammoth calf. Soaked in glycerine during collection. As a result, it required redating in 1951 and 1965. Fishhook MammothMol, D., Tikhonov, A.N., MacPhee, R.D.E., Flemming, C., Buigues, B., De Marliave, C., Coppens, Y. and Agenbroad, L.D., 2001. The Fishhook Mammoth: rediscovery of a woolly mammoth carcass by the CERPOLEX/Mammuthus Team, Taimyr Peninsula, Siberia. In Proceedings of the 1st International Congress La Terra degli Elefanti/The World of Elephants, Rome (pp. 310-313). Shoreline banks of the estuary of the Upper Taimyra River, Taymyr Peninsula, Siberian Federal District. -1992 20,620±70 Partial woolly mammoth carcass Jarkov MammothUkraintseva, V.V., 2013. Mammoths and the Environment. Cambridge University Press. 354 pp. Mol, D., Coppens, Y., Tikhonov, A.N., Agenbroad, L.D., MacPhee, R.D.E., Flemming, C., Greenwood, A., Buigues, B., De Marliave, C., Van Geel, B. and Van Reenen, G.B.A., 2001. The Jarkov Mammoth: 20,000-year-old carcass of a Siberian woolly mammoth Mammuthus primigenius (Blumenbach, 1799). In Proceedings of the 1st International Congress’ The World of Elephants ‘(Roma) pp. 305-309. Taymyr Peninsula, Siberian Federal District 20,000 Found by members of the Jarkov family, who are Dolgan reindeer herders. Kirgilyakh (Magadan) Mammoth (Dima)Lozhkin, A.V. and Anderson, P.M., 2016. About the age and habitat of the Kirgilyakh mammoth (Dima), Western Beringia. Quaternary Science Reviews, 145, pp.104-116. Northeast Siberia, near Kirgilyakh Creek in the Upper Kolyma basin 40,000 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. Lyuba MammothFisher, D.C., Tikhonov, A.N., Kosintsev, P.A., Rountrey, A.N., Buigues, B. and van der Plicht, J., 2012. Anatomy, death, and preservation of a woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius) calf, Yamal Peninsula, northwest Siberia. Quaternary International, 255, pp.94-105.Papageorgopoulou, C., Link, K. and Rühli, F.J., 2015. Histology of a woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius) preserved in permafrost, Yamal Peninsula, northwest Siberia. The Anatomical Record, 298(6), pp.1059-1071. Near the Yuribei River on the Yamal Peninsula in northwest Siberia. 42,000 Lyuba was formerly regarded as the most complete and best-preserved mammoth calf discovered, prior to the discovery of Yuka. It is nicknamed Lyuba after the diminutive of the name of the wife of the reindeer herder who discovered it.Malolyakhovsky Mammoth (Buttercup)Ghose, T., 2014. Fresh Mammoth Carcass from Siberia Holds Many Secrets. Scientific American. Access Date October 2, 2017 Maly Lyakhovsky Island of the New Siberian Islands archipelago Grigoriev, S.E., Fisher, D.C., Obadă, T., Shirley, E.A., Rountrey, A.N., Savvinov, G.N., Garmaeva, D.K., Novgorodov, G.P., Cheprasov, M.Y., Vasilev, S.E. and Goncharov, A.E., 2017. A woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius) carcass from Maly Lyakhovsky Island (New Siberian Islands, Russian Federation). Quaternary International. 445, pp.98-103. 28,610±110 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.” Yuka MammothBoeskorov, G.G., Potapova, O.R., Mashchenko, E.N., Protopopov, A.V., Kuznetsova, T.V., Agenbroad, L. and Tikhonov, A.N., 2014. Preliminary analyses of the frozen mummies of mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius), bison (Bison priscus) and horse (Equus sp.) from the Yana‐Indigirka Lowland, Yakutia, Russia. Integrative zoology, 9(4), pp.471-480.Rudaya, N., Protopopov, A., Trofimova, S., Plotnikov, V. and Zhilich, S., 2015. Landscapes of the ‘Yuka’mammoth habitat: A palaeobotanical approach. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 214, pp.1-8. Oyagossky Yar coast, 30 km west from the mouth of the Kondratieva River near Yukagir, Siberia. 34,300+260/−240 The Yuka mammoth corpse consists of about 95% of its hide, and soft tissues around limbs were preserved in articulated position. This male mammoth calf was nicknamed ‘Yuka’ after the village of Yukagir, whose local people discovered it. Initially misclassified as female, it was determined to be male by later RNA testing. Sopkarga Mammoth (Zhenya)Maschenko, E.N., Tikhonov, A.N., Serdyuk, N.V., Tarasenko, K.K. and Lopatin, A.V., 2015. A finding of the male mammoth carcass in the Karginsky suit of the Upper Pleistocene of the Taimyr Peninsula. In Doklady Biological Sciences, 460, no. 1, p.32-35.Maschenko, E.N., Potapova, O.R., Vershinina, A., Shapiro, B., Streletskaya, I.D., Vasiliev, A.A., Oblogov, G.E., Kharlamova, A.S., Potapov, E., van der Plicht, J. and Tikhonov, A.N., 2017. The Zhenya Mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius (Blum.)): Taphonomy, geology, age, morphology and ancient DNA of a 48,000 year old frozen mummy from western Taimyr, Russia. Quaternary International, 445, pp.104-134. Taymyr Peninsula, Siberian Federal District 43,350±240 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.Khroma MammothAllaikhovskii District, Yakutia, Khroma RiverLacombat, F., Tikhonov, A.N., Cortella, L., Fisher, D.C., Buigues, B. and Lazarev, P., 2016. Khroma: autopsy of a story. Bull. Mus. Préhist. Monacco, suppl, (6), pp.149-154. greater than 45,000Fisher, D.C., Shirley, E.A., Whalen, C.D., Calamari, Z.T., Rountrey, A.N., Tikhonov, A.N., Buigues, B., Lacombat, F., Grigoriev, S. and Lazarev, P.A., 2014. X-ray computed tomography of two mammoth calf mummies X-Ray CT of Mammoth Calves. Journal of Paleontology, 88(4), pp.664-675Khroma is very well preserved excepting the absence of trunk.Yukagir mammothNorthern Yakutia, Arctic Siberia, Russia (autumn)22,500 cal. BP Notably well-preserved head, which revealed that woolly mammoths had temporal glands between the ear and the eyeNun cho ga mammothYukon, Trʼondëk Hwëchʼin First Nation, Canadagreater than 30,000.Considered the most complete mummified mammoth found in North America, and only the second such find of a calf since Effie (1948). Also roughly same size as Lyuba (2007).
List of significant fossil or subfossil mammoth bone accumulations
In the former Soviet Union and Russia, bone beds and other accumulations of fossil and subfossil bones are known in the scientific literature as mass accumulations.In the former Soviet Union and Russia, bone beds and other accumulations of fossil and subfossil bones are known in the scientific literature as mass accumulations.