Equus lenensis Russanov, 1968

Lena horse, Chersky horse

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

Conservation Status

Extinct?

Last record: 4630 ± 35 years BP (GrA540209, CalPal calibration: 5384 ± 58 calBP) (Boeskorov et al. 2012)

Distribution

Russia

Biology & Ecology

Hypodigm

Media

References

Irena Axmanová, Jan Robovský, Lubomír Tichý, Jiří Danihelka, Elena Troeva, Albert Protopopov and Milan Chytrý. (2020). Habitats of Pleistocene megaherbivores reconstructed from the frozen fauna remains. Ecography 43: 1-11.

Boeskorov GG, Protopopov AV, Maschenko EN et al. (2012). Preliminary data on unique finds of the Ice Age mammals from Yana-Indigirka Lowland. Herald of Northeastern Federal University 4: 10-16. (In Russian.)

Boeskorov, Gennady G. et al. (2014). Preliminary analyses of the frozen mummies of mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius), bison (Bison priscus) and horse (Equus sp.) from the Yana-Indigirka Lowland, Yakutia, Russia. Integrative Zoology 9: 471-480.

Boeskorov, Gennady G. et al. (2018). A study of a frozen mummy of a wild horse from the Holocene of Yakutia, East Siberia, Russia. Mammal Research. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13364-018-0362-4 [Abstract]

Cirilli, Omar, Machado, H., Arroyo-Cabrales, J., Barrón-Ortiz, C. I., Davis, E., Jass, C. N., Jukar, A. M., Landry, Z., Marín-Leyva, A. H., Pandolfi, L., Pushkina, D., Rook, L., Saarinen, J., Scott, E., Semprebon, G., Strani, F., Villavicencio, N. A., Kaya, F. and Bernor, R. L. (2022). Evolution of the Family Equidae, Subfamily Equinae, in North, Central and South America, Eurasia and Africa during the Plio-Pleistocene. Biology 11(9): 1258. https://doi.org/10.3390/biology11091258

Spasskaya N.N., Pavlinov I.Ya., Sharko F.S., Boulygina E.S., Tsygankova S.V., Nedoluzhko A.V., Boeskorov G.G., Mashchenko E.N. (2021). Morphometric and genetic analyses of diversity of the Lena horse (Equus lenensis Russanov, 1968; Mammalia: Equidae). Russian J. Theriol. 20(1): 82-95. doi: 10.15298/rusjtheriol.20.1.09

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