Age of Mammuthus trogontherii from Kostolac, Serbia, and the entry of megaherbivores into Europe during the Late Matuyama climate revolution

• Published in: Quaternary research Vol. 84; no. 3; pp. 439 - 447
• Main Authors: Muttoni, Giovanni, Scardia, Giancarlo, Dimitrijević, Vesna, Kent, Dennis V., Monesi, Edoardo, Mrdjić, Nemanja, Korać, Miomir
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York, USA Cambridge University Press 01.11.2015; Elsevier Inc
• Subjects: Age; Boundaries; Climate; Conduits; Electron spin resonance; Fossils; Freshwater; Late Matuyama; Luminescence; Magnetostratigraphy; Mammuthus trogontherii; Migration; Pleistocene; Serbia; ASE, Africa; Serbia; Asia; ANE, Europe; Africa; Late Matuyama; Serbia; Mammuthus trogontherii; Magnetostratigraphy; Pleistocene

At the Drmno open-pit coal mine near Kostolac in Serbia, a nearly complete skeleton of Mammuthus trogontherii (nicknamed Vika) was discovered in a fluvial deposit overlain by a loess–paleosol sequence where a second paleontological level named Nosak with remains of M. trogontherii was found. We stud...