Zoological Museum of the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Russia

Zoological Museum of the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Type	museum
Opened for public	1931
Place	Saint Petersburg
Country	Russia
Website	Website
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Zoological Museum of the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, in Saint Petersburg, Russia , opened for public in 1931.

Taxidermy specimens

Zoological Museum of the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences has in its collection 1 elephantine museum specimens with records in this database:

(Measurements of teeth and body parts follow the system described by Maglio (1973; P = plate number, L = length, W = width, H = height, LF = lamellar frequency)

Dima Accession nr: . Received: 1977-00-00 ⚪ Dima (fossil)
Species: Woolly Mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius)
* Born about 41,000 years ago at Siberia unspecified forest † Dead about 41,000 years ago at Frunze mineDeath reason: unknown (N/A)
Discovered as fossil 1977-06-23 by Anatoly Logachev, a bulldozer operator from the Znamya prospecting artel. at permafrost near the Frunze mine, and Kirgilyakh Creek in the Upper Kolyma basin in the Susumansky district, Northeast Siberia,

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Koehl, Dan (2025). Zoological Museum of the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Elephant Encyclopedia. Available online at https://www.elephant.se/location2.php?location_id=3719. (archived at the Wayback machine)

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoological_Museum_(Saint_Petersburg)

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