List of mammoth specimens


This list covers mammoth remains which are either notable in their history or preservation. Mass accumulations of mammoth remains are included in the latter portion of this list.

List of notable individual fossil or subfossil mammoth remains

NameImageLocation of discoveryDate of discoveryAge of remains in
radiocarbon years BP
Comments
Adams mammothMouth of the Lena River, Siberia35,800It is the first complete mammoth skeleton ever to be reconstructed. Originally, it was an entire mummified mammoth carcass.
Beresovka MammothBerezovka River, Siberia44,000Except for the head, it is an almost wholly preserved, mummified mammoth carcass.
Effie / Fairbanks Creek MammothFairbanks Creek near Fairbanks, Alaska21,300±1,300,
>28,000, 31,400±2,040
It consists of the mummified head, trunk, and left forelimb of a mammoth calf. Soaked in glycerine during collection. As a result, it required redating in 1951 and 1965.
Fishhook MammothShoreline banks of the estuary of the Upper Taimyra River, Taymyr Peninsula, Siberian Federal District.-199220,620±70Partial woolly mammoth carcass
Jarkov MammothTaymyr Peninsula, Siberian Federal District20,000Found by members of the Jarkov family, who are Dolgan reindeer herders.
Kirgilyakh Mammoth Northeast Siberia, near Kirgilyakh Creek in the Upper Kolyma basin40,000The discovery of the frozen carcass of the Kirgilyakh Mammoth or Dima provided the first opportunity for a detailed study of the anatomy of a mammoth calf.
Lyuba MammothNear the Yuribei River on the Yamal Peninsula in northwest Siberia.42,000Lyuba is regarded to be the most complete and best-preserved mammoth calf discovered. It is nicknamed Lyuba after the diminutive of the name of the wife of the reindeer herder who discovered it.
Malolyakhovsky Mammoth Maly Lyakhovsky Island of the New Siberian Islands archipelago28,610±110While many mammoths found in permafrost are dried up and mummified, “this was really juicy,” said Herridge, who likened the appearance of the muscle to a “piece of steak — bright red when you cut into the flesh and then as it hit the air, it would go brown.”
Yuka MammothOyagossky Yar coast, 30 km west from the mouth of the Kondratieva River near Yukagir, Siberia.34,300+260/−240The Yuka mammoth corpse consists of about 95% of its hide, and soft tissues around limbs were preserved in articulated position. This male mammoth calf was nicknamed ‘Yuka’ after the village of Yukagir, whose local people discovered it. Initially misclassified as female, it was determined to be male by later RNA testing.
Sopkarga Mammoth Taymyr Peninsula, Siberian Federal District43,350±240The Sopkarga Mammoth was found on the right bank of the Yenisei River about 3 km north of the Sopochnaya Karga Meteorological Station on Sopochnaya Karga Cape. Zhenya is the diminutive of the name of the 11-year-old boy who discovered it.
Khroma MammothAllaikhovskii District, Yakutia, Khroma Rivergreater than 45,000Khroma is very well preserved excepting the absence of trunk.
Yukagir mammothNorthern Yakutia, Arctic Siberia, Russia 22,500 cal. BPNotably well-preserved head, which revealed that woolly mammoths had temporal glands between the ear and the eye
Nun cho ga mammothYukon, Trʼondëk Hwëchʼin First Nation, Canadagreater than 30,000.Considered the most complete mummified mammoth found in North America, and only the second such find of a calf since Effie. Also roughly same size as Lyuba.

List of significant fossil or subfossil mammoth bone accumulations

In the former Soviet Union and Russia, bone beds and other accumulations of fossil and subfossil bones are known in the scientific literature as mass accumulations.
NameImageLocation of discoveryDate of discoveryAge of remains in years BPComments
Achchagyi–Allaikha mass accumulationAchchagyi–Allaikha stream, Yana-Indighirka coastal lowlands, Siberia.12,490±80 to 12,400±60 BP., C14The concentration of bones in the Achchagyi–Allaikha mass accumulation was likely result from the simultaneous deaths of a large number of animals within herd-family groups in one or several seasons. The formation of this mass accumulation is argued to be a direct consequence of short but strong climatic warming and associated unfavorable environmental conditions.
Berelyokh mass accumulationByoryolyokh River, Yana-Indighirka coastal lowlands, Siberia.12,720±100 to 11,900±50 BP., C14The concentration of bones in the Berelyokh mass accumulation was likely result from the simultaneous deaths of a large number of animals within herd-family groups in one or several seasons. The formation of this mass accumulation is argued to be a direct consequence of short but strong climatic warming and associated unfavorable environmental conditions.
Condover siteNorton Farm Pit, Condover, south of Shrewsbury, United kingdomcirca 12,300 BP., C14, Greenland Interstadial 1Remains of several mammoths trapped in glacial kettle-hole
The Mammoth SiteHot Springs, South DakotaGreater than 26,000 B.P, C14As of 2016, the remains of 58 North American Columbian and 3 woolly mammoths have been found within pond sediments filling an ancient sinkhole.
Waco Mammoth National MonumentWaco, Texas66,800±5,000 BP, calendarAs of 2016, two bone beds have yielded 25 Columbian mammoths along with the remains of other co-existing fauna.
Mammoth centralSanta Lucía, Mexico10,000 to 20,000As of 2020, at least 200 Columbian mammoths have been uncovered as well as 25 camels and five horses.