TY  - JOUR
AU  - Muttoni, Giovanni
AU  - Scardia, Giancarlo
AU  - Dimitrijević, Vesna
AU  - Kent, Dennis V.
AU  - Monesi, Edoardo
AU  - Mrđić, Nemanja
AU  - Korać, Miomir
PY  - 2015
UR  - http://rai.ai.ac.rs/handle/123456789/234
AB  - At the Drmno open-pit coal mine near Kostolac in Serbia, a nearly complete skeleton of Mammuthus trogontherii (nicknamed Vika) was discovered in a fluvial deposit overlain by a loess-paleosol sequence where a second paleontological level named Nosak with remains of M. trogontherii was found. We studied the magnetostratigraphy of the Kostolac sedimentary sequence and found that the Vika layer dates to similar to 0.8 Ma, shortly before the Brunhes-Matuyama boundary. In addition, according to our age model and previously reported optically stimulated luminescence and electron spin resonance dates, the Nosak fossils have an estimated age of 0.19 Ma and lived during the earliest part of Marine Isotope Stage 6. It appears therefore that at Kostolac, M. trogontherii is preserved both at its earliest occurrence at similar to 0.8 Ma and close to its latest occurrence at 0.19 Ma, and may well have been present in between, albeit not yet found. We speculate that megaherbivores such as M. trogontherii entered Europe along a conjunct Danube-Po River migration conduit connecting western Asia-Levant with central-southern Europe where vast and exploitable ecosystems, particularly suited for steppe- or savanna-adapted megaherbivores from Asia and Africa, developed during the late early Pleistocene climate revolution at around 0.8 Ma.
PB  - Cambridge Univ Press, New York
T2  - Quaternary Research
T1  - Age of Mammuthus trogontherii from Kostolac, Serbia, and the entry of megaherbivores into Europe during the Late Matuyama climate revolution
EP  - 447
IS  - 3
SP  - 439
VL  - 84
DO  - 10.1016/j.yqres.2015.09.001
ER  - 

@article{
author = "Muttoni, Giovanni and Scardia, Giancarlo and Dimitrijević, Vesna and Kent, Dennis V. and Monesi, Edoardo and Mrđić, Nemanja and Korać, Miomir",
year = "2015",
abstract = "At the Drmno open-pit coal mine near Kostolac in Serbia, a nearly complete skeleton of Mammuthus trogontherii (nicknamed Vika) was discovered in a fluvial deposit overlain by a loess-paleosol sequence where a second paleontological level named Nosak with remains of M. trogontherii was found. We studied the magnetostratigraphy of the Kostolac sedimentary sequence and found that the Vika layer dates to similar to 0.8 Ma, shortly before the Brunhes-Matuyama boundary. In addition, according to our age model and previously reported optically stimulated luminescence and electron spin resonance dates, the Nosak fossils have an estimated age of 0.19 Ma and lived during the earliest part of Marine Isotope Stage 6. It appears therefore that at Kostolac, M. trogontherii is preserved both at its earliest occurrence at similar to 0.8 Ma and close to its latest occurrence at 0.19 Ma, and may well have been present in between, albeit not yet found. We speculate that megaherbivores such as M. trogontherii entered Europe along a conjunct Danube-Po River migration conduit connecting western Asia-Levant with central-southern Europe where vast and exploitable ecosystems, particularly suited for steppe- or savanna-adapted megaherbivores from Asia and Africa, developed during the late early Pleistocene climate revolution at around 0.8 Ma.",
publisher = "Cambridge Univ Press, New York",
journal = "Quaternary Research",
title = "Age of Mammuthus trogontherii from Kostolac, Serbia, and the entry of megaherbivores into Europe during the Late Matuyama climate revolution",
pages = "447-439",
number = "3",
volume = "84",
doi = "10.1016/j.yqres.2015.09.001"
}

Muttoni, G., Scardia, G., Dimitrijević, V., Kent, D. V., Monesi, E., Mrđić, N.,& Korać, M.. (2015). Age of Mammuthus trogontherii from Kostolac, Serbia, and the entry of megaherbivores into Europe during the Late Matuyama climate revolution. in Quaternary Research
Cambridge Univ Press, New York., 84(3), 439-447.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.yqres.2015.09.001

Muttoni G, Scardia G, Dimitrijević V, Kent DV, Monesi E, Mrđić N, Korać M. Age of Mammuthus trogontherii from Kostolac, Serbia, and the entry of megaherbivores into Europe during the Late Matuyama climate revolution. in Quaternary Research. 2015;84(3):439-447.
doi:10.1016/j.yqres.2015.09.001 .

Muttoni, Giovanni, Scardia, Giancarlo, Dimitrijević, Vesna, Kent, Dennis V., Monesi, Edoardo, Mrđić, Nemanja, Korać, Miomir, "Age of Mammuthus trogontherii from Kostolac, Serbia, and the entry of megaherbivores into Europe during the Late Matuyama climate revolution" in Quaternary Research, 84, no. 3 (2015):439-447,
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.yqres.2015.09.001 . .