TOMSK, Aug 7 – RIA Tomsk. Paleontologists of Tomsk State University (TSU) during the expedition in Krasnoyarsk Krai found unknown
earlier location of dinosaurs and mammoths in Big Ilek quarry; according to
scientists, this quarry is similar to the largest Russian congestion of
dinosaur and mammoth fauna located in the Kemerovo region, the press service of
university reports.
It is noted that the detailed
stratigraphic description of all thickness of the quarry was the main task of
the trip, bat not search of fossil organisms. However, in the course of the
geological researches scientists managed to find the remains of large
herbivorous (presumably, sauropods and stegosaurs) and predatory dinosaurs. In
"the mammoths level" bones of mammoths, rhinoceroses and predators
are found.
"Concerning the remains of
mammoth’s fauna … it is generally fragments though their conditions of
occurrence are subaerial – that is they are buried not in water, bat in the
land surface. As a rule, bones are found weathered in such cases, but rather
whole, and practically all bones are broken here. We haven't found bites of
predators therefore, perhaps, also ancient people "worked"
here", – the chief of the expedition Sergey Leshchinsky is quoted.
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According to him, so far, Big Ilek
was almost "mute", there was only a rare pollen of extinct plants in
its ancient sediments. Now a Mesozoic part of the quarry has paleontological
justification of the age – Early Cretaceous (possibly, 120-100 million years
ago). It reminds Shestakovsky Yar in the Kemerovo region on its structure – one
of the largest congestions of dinosaurs and mammoth fauna in Russia.
Earlier it was reported that scientists
and students of TSU who were carrying out excavation on one of the largest
burials of mammoths in Eurasia – in the tract of the Wolf's Mane near
Novosibirsk, come across sites with high concentration of bones of mammoths in
2016. Concentration on one "square" at a thickness of sediments to a
half a meter exceeded 100 bones. The scientists revealed not only the remains
of at least eight mammoths, but also a bison, a horse, a fox or a polar fox,
and rodents from 785 found finds.
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Location of dinosaurs and mammoths fauna in the quarry Big Ilek in Krasnoyarsk Krai
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Location of dinosaurs and mammoths in Krasnoyarsk Krai