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Mammuthus sungari Chow & Chang, 1959

Songhua River mammoth

 

 

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

 

 

Conservation Status

Extinct or invalid

Last record: Late Pleistocene

 

Distribution

China

 

Biology & Ecology

 

 

Hypodigm

 

 

Media

 

 

References

Dong, Wei, Xu, Qinqi, Jin, Changzhu and Liu, Jinyi. (1999). Quaternary herbivore fauna in northeastern China: Evolution under climatic change. Chinese Science Bulletin 44(Suppl.): 129-132.

Lemoine, Rhys Taylor, Buitenwerf, Robert, Faurby, Sören and Svenning, Jens-Christian. (2025). Phylogenetic Evidence Supports the Effect of Traits on Late-Quaternary Megafauna Extinction in the Context of Human Activity. Global Ecology and Biogeography 34(7): e70078. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.70078 [Supporting Information: Data S1]

Tong, Haowen and Patou-Mathis, M. (2003). Mammoth and other proboscideans in China during the Late Pleistocene. In: Reumer, J. W. F., De Vos, J. and Mol, D. (eds.). Advances in Mammoth Research (Proceedings of the Second International Mammoth Conference, Rotterdam, May 16-20 1999). Deinsea 9: 421-428.

 

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