Climate Change Challenges Grey Wolf Resilience: Insights From Dental Microwear. [PDF]
Ecol LettWe investigate dietary plasticity in European grey wolves across interglacial periods using dental microwear texture analysis. Enhanced durophagy is associated with warm climates in both modern Polish and British Pleistocene wolves, indicating deep‐time behavioural flexibility.
Burtt AA +7 more
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Enamel Prism Angle Variation and Hard-Object Feeding in Cercopithecoids With Known Diets. [PDF]
Am J Biol AnthropolLeft: Cercocebus atys specimen 16–9 third molar showing Phase II enamel prism angle (angle between prism path and wear facet) and wear angle (angle between wear facet and enamel dentin junction (EDJ)). Scatterplot of prism vs. wear angles for the Phase II wear facet. Note the higher angles for Cercocebus.
Scheinblum J +3 more
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Dietary ecology of Smilodon across time and space: Additional perspectives from Smilodon gracilis and Smilodon fatalis in Florida. [PDF]
Anat Rec (Hoboken)Dental microwear texture analysis of Smilodon samples from Florida's Pleistocene reveals moderate carcass utilization (like modern African lions) across space and time, with more subtle dietary shifts in response to fluctuating climates. Abstract Smilodon, the iconic saber‐toothed cat, was a Pleistocene apex predator comprised of three morphologically ...
Pardo-Judd J, DeSantis L.
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Direct comparisons of 2D and 3D dental microwear proxies in extant herbivorous and carnivorous mammals. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 The analysis of dental microwear is commonly used by paleontologists and anthropologists to clarify the diets of extinct species, including herbivorous and carnivorous mammals.
Larisa R G DeSantis +8 more
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Similar associations of tooth microwear and morphology indicate similar diet across marsupial and placental mammals. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2014 Low-magnification microwear techniques have been used effectively to infer diets within many unrelated mammalian orders, but the extent to which patterns are comparable among such different groups, including long extinct mammal lineages, is unknown ...
Hilary B Christensen
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Scottish Archaeological Internet Reports, 2021 Randolph E Donahue, Adrian A Evans
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Molar macrowear reveals Neanderthal eco-geographic dietary variation [PDF]
, 2011 Neanderthal diets are reported to be based mainly on the consumption of large and medium sized herbivores, while the exploitation of other food types including plants has also been demonstrated.
Benazzi, Stefano +5 more
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Dietary abrasiveness is associated with variability of microwear and dental surface texture in rabbits. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 Dental microwear and 3D surface texture analyses are useful in reconstructing herbivore diets, with scratches usually interpreted as indicators of grass dominated diets and pits as indicators of browse.
Ellen Schulz +5 more
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Anthropological Review, 2021 The Belgian Meuse karstic basin holds more than 200 Late Neolithic collective burials. Four of the largest include Hastière Caverne M, Hastière Trou Garçon C, Sclaigneaux and Bois Madame.
Bryan Brandon Cory +1 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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