 Reference Base  Horns of the woolly rhinoceros Coelodonta antiquitatis (B... |
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The Ice Age Museum (Moscow, Russia) houses the most representative collection of woolly rhinoceros horns in the world. It consists in about 30 complete and fragmentary specimens from the Late Pleistocene deposits of Northern Yakutia and Chukotka. This collection includes five complete sets of nasal and frontal horns of the same individual (two sets with their own proper skull); series of horns of different individual age: from juvenile to old; horns of specific structure; a series of horns of a different stage of preservation from a relatively good one to a rather poor one, displaying various stages of organic matter decay. The most interesting specimens from this collection are described in brief. The horn collection of Ice Age Museum has important significance for the understanding of the woolly rhinoceros adaptive biology and ecology in the Ice Age period.
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