Paleontological research on the Bykovsky Peninsula (Table 5-5) ...

• Main Author: Kuzmina, Svetlana A
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2007
• Subjects: ORDINAL NUMBER; Sample code/label; Taxon/taxa; Skeleton element; Preservation; Sample type; Area/locality; -; Comment; Outcrop sample; RU-Land_1998_Lena; AWI Arctic Land Expedition; Permafrost Research Periglacial Dynamics @ AWI AWI_PerDyn; Arctic; Posi; permafrost
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.1594/pangaea.615803; https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.615803

In 1998, we were able to collect at the Bykovsky Peninsula more than 600 bones. Typically for permafrost regions, where fossil bones in summer rapidly emerge from frozen sediment and are delivered to the cliff foot by mud flows, most bones come from the shore and shallow coastal bars, mainly in the area of the Mamontovy Khayata cliff, and another site NW of it, provisionally called ”the Holocene Shore”. However, rather large amount of bones (145) was collected at the Mamontovy Khayata exposure itself. Among them, about 20 bones (location group ”a”) were discovered strictly in situ in the frozen silts and sands, and about 80 bones were found in the mud flows; the initial stratigraphic posi-tion of the latter could be reconstructed more or less precisely (location group ”b”). About 30 bones, listed under the last group, were found on the surface of fresh mud flows evidently related to certain baidzherakhs, or their closely ar-ranged groups, so the original position of these bones can be estimated within 2-4 ...