Can dental microwear textures record inter-individual dietary variations? [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2010 BACKGROUND: Dental microwear analyses are commonly used to deduce the diet of extinct mammals. Conventional methods rely on the user identifying features within a 2D image.
Gildas Merceron +3 more
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Reconstruction of feeding behaviour and diet in Devonian ctenacanth chondrichthyans using dental microwear texture and finite element analyses [PDF]
R Soc Open SciDevonian ctenacanth chondrichthyans reached body sizes similar to modern great white sharks and therefore might have been apex predators of the Devonian seas.
M. Greif +5 more
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Dental microwear texture analysis reveals behavioural, ecological and habitat signals in Late Jurassic sauropod dinosaur faunas [PDF]
Nat Ecol EvolMost faunas from the Mesozoic era were dominated by sauropod dinosaurs, the largest terrestrial animals to ever exist. These megaherbivores were remarkably diverse and widely distributed.
Daniela E. Winkler +4 more
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Inter-and intra-period dietary variations revealed by dental microwear texture analysis in Holocene Levantine populations [PDF]
Sci RepThe transition from hunter-gatherer subsistence to agricultural economies marks one of the most significant shifts in human dietary history. This study investigates dietary adaptations and intra-period variability among Holocene Levantine populations ...
Dana Megreli +4 more
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Digital analysis of tooth microwear, a potential application for dental microwear monitor [PDF]
Biosurface and Biotribology, 2022 In general, tooth wear is difficult to be noticed until it leads to toothache in vivo. Developing a dynamic dental wear monitoring system to predict tooth wear in daily life is a necessity.
Gang Xue +3 more
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What about the buccal surfaces? Dental microwear texture analysis of buccal and occlusal surfaces refines paleodietary reconstructions [PDF]
Am J Biol Anthropol, 2022 Objectives This study analyzes and compares dental microwear textures on occlusal and buccal surfaces from the same tooth to determine if using these surfaces in tandem can provide complementary data for dietary reconstructions.
R. Hernando +6 more
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A comprehensive dataset and image-set for exploring buccal dental microwear in late prehistory farming groups from northeastern Iberian Peninsula [PDF]
Data in BriefThis data article presents a comprehensive buccal dental microwear raw database, accompanied by all corresponding archaeological sample micrographs acquired through a ZEISS Axioscope A1 optical microscopy (OM).
Raquel Hernando
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Dental microwear of a basal ankylosaurine dinosaur, Jinyunpelta and its implication on evolution of chewing mechanism in ankylosaurs. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2021 Jinyunpelta sinensis is a basal ankylosaurine dinosaur excavated from the mid Cretaceous Liangtoutang Formation of Jinyun County, Zhejiang Province, China.
Tai Kubo +3 more
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Masticatory jaw movement of Exaeretodon argentinus (Therapsida: Cynodontia) inferred from its dental microwear. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2017 Dental microwear of four postcanine teeth of Exaeretodon argentinus was analyzed using both two dimensional (2D) and three dimensional (3D) methods to infer their masticatory jaw movements.
Tai Kubo, Eisuke Yamada, Mugino O Kubo
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The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.With the development of dental microwear texture analysis (DMTA), there has been an increasing application of DMTA for dietary estimation in extant and fossil reptiles, including dinosaurs. While numerous feeding experiments exist for herbivorous mammals,
K. Usami, M. Kubo
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