frozen permafrost pleistocene mammal carcasses with soft tissue remains are subject to intensive study and help elucidate the palaeoenvironment where these animals lived. Here we present an inventory of the freshwater fauna and flora found in a sediment sample from the mummified Woolly Mammoth carcass found in August 2010, from the Oyogos Yar coast near the Kondratievo River in the Laptev Sea region, Sakha (Yakutia) Republic, ne Russia. our study demonstrates that the waterbody where the carcass was buried could be characterized as a shallow pond or lake inhabited mainly by taxa which are present in this area today, but additionally by some branchiopod crustacean taxa currently absent or unusual in the region although they exist in the arid zone of eurasia (steppes and semideserts). These findings suggest that some "non-analogue" crustacean communities co-existed with the "Mammoth fauna". Our findings raise questions about the nature of the waterbodies that existed in Beringia during the MIS3 climatic optimum when the mammoth was alive.
Based on a unique combination of morphological characters, a new species of the raphid pennate diatom genus Pinnularia was described from the sediments in MacDonald Point peat-bog, Shemya Island, Alaska, USA. P. arkadii sp. nov. has linear valves with parallel margins, widely rounded ends and central area forming wide fascia; striae are relatively coarse, 5.6–6.6 in 10 μm, not crossed by longitudal bands. This taxon was compared to other morphologically similar species of Pinnularia: P. aestuarii, P. brebissonii, P. eifelana, P. franconica, P. idsbensis, P. inconstans, P. laperousei, P. linearidivergens, P. rabenhorstii var. subantarctica and P. tolottiana. The main morphological characters of P. arkadii and similar taxa are discussed.
Abstract. Here presented a short overview of paleoreconstruction works started since 2018 for the Aleutian Islands region. Material is from four Aleutian Islands that represented by peat deposits and modern waterbodies samples are studied. Modern and fossil diatom communities of these islands are described, diatom analyses and paleoreconstructions are performed.
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