An ancient bison from the mouth of the Rauchua River (Chukotka, Russia)

• Published in: Quaternary Research
• Main Authors: Kirillova, Irina V., Zanina, Oksana G., Chernova, Olga F., Lapteva, Elena G., Trofimova, Svetlana S., Lebedev, Vladimir S., Tiunov, Alexei V., Soares, Andre E.R., Shidlovskiy, Fedor K., Shapiro, Beth
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 2015
• Subjects: Rauchua; Chukotka; Tundra
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.yqres.2015.06.003; http://api.elsevier.com/content/article/PII:S0033589415000617?httpAccept=text/xml; http://api.elsevier.com/content/article/PII:S0033589415000617?httpAccept=text/plain; https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0033589400000636

An incomplete carcass of an extinct bison, Bison ex gr. priscus , was discovered in 2012 in the mouth of the Rauchua River (69°30′N, 166°49′E), Chukotka. The carcass included the rump with two hind limbs, ribs, and large flap of hide from the abdomen and sides, several vertebrae, bones of the foreli...