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English: Mammuthus primigenius Blumenbach, 1799 - woolly mammoth skull from the Pleistocene of Siberia. (public display, Yakutsk Public Unified Museum of History & Northern Folk Culture, Yakutsk, Siberia, Russia)

This is the Tirekhtyakh Mammoth, a ~40,000 year old, complete skeleton found in eastern Siberia in 1970 by K.M. Struchkovym. Preserved skin and hair were present on portions of the skeleton (head and one front leg).

Classification: Animalia, Vertebrata, Mammalia, Proboscidea, Elephantidae

Age: Kargian Interglacial, Late Pleistocene, ~40 ka

Locality: near the Tirekhtyakh River (a tributary of the Indigirka River), eastern Siberia, Russia

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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woolly_mammoth
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