I may be tilting at seagulls, too...but what the heck.
This suggests that approx 12,000 years ago mastodons that were living in tropical regions were suddenly frozen in what is now near Siberia. I found that to be rather interesting. The fact that they had tropical flowers in their stomach proves where they lived.
Tropical? You're off by a climate zone. I'd be willing to bet a modest sum that you're referring to the buttercups found with the Beresovka mammoth...or some similar case. Those flowers are not classified as tropical plants. They generally favor cool, temperate environments. Distribution of some species is huge, ranging well into arctic areas such as Greenland and northern Alaska, where I live.
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