List of mammoth specimens

List of notable individual fossil or subfossil mammoth remains

Name	Image	Location of discovery	Date of discovery	Age of remains in radiocarbon years BP	Comments
Adams mammoth		Mouth of the Lena River, Siberia[1]	1799[1][2]	35,800±1200[1][3]	It is the first complete mammoth skeleton ever to be reconstructed. Originally, it was an entire mummified mammoth carcass.[2]
Beresovka Mammoth		Berezovka River, Siberia[4]	1900[4]	44,000±3,500[4]	Except for head, it is an almost wholly preserved, mummified mammoth carcass.[4]
Fairbanks Creek Mammoth (Effie)[5]		Fairbanks Creek near Fairbanks, Alaska[5]	1948[5]	21,300±1,300[5][6]	It consists of the mummified head, trunk, and left forelimb of a mammoth calf. It was recovered from muck near prehistoric scraper.[5]
Fishhook Mammoth[7]		Shoreline banks of the estuary of the Upper Taimyra River, Taymyr Peninsula, Siberian Federal District.[7]	1990-1992[7]	20,620±70[7]	Partial woolly mammoth carcass[7]
Jarkov Mammoth[8][9]		Taymyr Peninsula, Siberian Federal District[9][8]	July 1997[8]	20,390±160[8]	Found by members of the Jarkov family, who are Dolgan reindeer herders.[8]
Kirgilyakh (Magadan) Mammoth (Dima)[8][10]		Northeast Siberia, near Kirgilyakh Creek in the Upper Kolyma basin[8][10]	June 23, 1977[10]	41,000±900[10]	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.[10]
Lyuba Mammoth[11][12]		Near the Yuribei River on the Yamal Peninsula in northwest Siberia.[11][12]	May 2007[11]	41,700+700/-550[11]	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.[11][12]
Malolyakhovsky Mammoth[13] Buttercup[14]		Maly Lyakhovsky Island of the New Siberian Islands archipelago[13]	2012[13]	28,610±110[13]	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.”[15]
Yuka Mammoth[16][17]		Oyagossky Yar coast, 30 km west from the mouth of the Kondratieva River near Yukagir, Siberia.[17]	August 2010[17]	34,300+260/−240[17]	The Yuka mammoth corpse consists of about 95% of its hide, and soft tissues around limbs were preserved in articulated position. This female mammoth calf was nicknamed ‘Yuka’ after the village of Yukagir, whose local people discovered it.[16][17]
Sopkarga Mammoth (Zhenya)[18][19]		Taymyr Peninsula, Siberian Federal District[18]	August 28, 2012[18][19]	43,350±240[19]	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.[18][19]
Khroma Mammoth[20]		Allaikhovskii District, Yakutia, Khroma River[20]	October 2008[20]	greater than 45,000[21]	Khroma is very well preserved excepting the absence of trunk.[20]
Yukagir mammoth		Northern Yakutia, Arctic Siberia, Russia	Autumn of 2002	22,500 cal. BP [22]	Notably well-preserved head, which revealed that woolly mammoths had temporal glands between the ear and the eye[22]

List of significant fossil or subfossil mammoth bone accumulations

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Name	Image	Location of discovery	Date of discovery	Age of remains in years BP	Comments
Achchagyi–Allaikha mass accumulation[23][24]		Achchagyi–Allaikha stream, Yana-Indighirka coastal lowlands, Siberia.[24][25]	1987[24]	12,490±80 to 12,400±60 BP., C14[24]	The concentration of bones in the Achchagyi–Allaikha mass accumulation was likely result from 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.[24]
Berelyokh mass accumulation[23][24][25]		Byoryolyokh River, Yana-Indighirka coastal lowlands, Siberia.[24][25]	1947[25]	12,720±100 to 11,900±50 BP., C14[24]	The concentration of bones in the Berelyokh mass accumulation was likely result from 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.[24][25]
Condover site[26]		Norton Farm Pit, Condover, south of Shrewsbury, United kingdom[26]	1986[26]	circa 12,300 BP., C14, Greenland Interstadial 1[26]	Remains of several mammoths trapped in glacial kettle-hole[26]
Mammoth Site, Hot Springs[27]		Hot Springs, South Dakota[27][28][29]	1974[27][28]	Greater than 26,000 B.P, C14[29]	As of 2016, the remains of 58 North American Columbian and 3 woolly mammoths have been found within pond sediments filling an ancient sinkhole.[28][29]
Waco Mammoth National Monument[30][31]		Waco, Texas[30]	1978[30]	66,800±5,000 BP, calendar[32]	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.[31]

See also

• La Brea tar pits
• Niederweningen Mammoth Museum
• Pleistocene Park

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