Dental Microwear Texture Analysis of the Bornean Orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus) From the Selenka Collection. [PDF]
Am J Biol AnthropolABSTRACT Objectives Characterizing the diet of extant taxa is important not only to determine their ecological niche but also to serve as a reference for dietary and niche inferences in evolutionary studies. Tracking the diets of fossil taxa and their change through time has been increasingly employed to further understand the evolution of primates. In
Habinger SG +5 more
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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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The Meaning of Mangabey Molars (And Premolars). [PDF]
Evol AnthropolABSTRACT The postcanine teeth of mangabeys (members of Cercocebus and Lophocebus) have figured prominently in discussions about the relationship between hard‐object feeding and dental form. Grey‐cheeked mangabeys (Lophocebus albigena) and sooty mangabeys (Cercocebus atys) both have thickly enameled posterior teeth.
Guatelli-Steinberg D, Scott McGraw W.
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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.
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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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Royal Society Open Science, 2022 Dental microwear is used to investigate feeding ecology. Animals ingest geological material in addition to food. The full effect of geological abrasives on tooth wear is unknown.
Matthew C. Mihlbachler +2 more
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Scottish Archaeological Internet Reports, 2021 Randolph E Donahue, Adrian A Evans
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Dental topography and microwear texture in Sapajus apella
Biosurface and Biotribology, 2017 Dental microwear texture pattern has been associated with aspects of diet for a broad range of mammalian taxa. The basic idea is that soft, tough foods are sheared with a steeper angle of approach between opposing occlusal surfaces, whereas hard, brittle
Peter S. Ungar +3 more
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Dental microwear differences between eastern and southern African fossil bovids and hominins
South African Journal of Science, 2016 Dental microwear has proven to be a valuable tool for reconstructing diets of fossil vertebrates. However, recent studies have suggested that the pattern of microscopic scratches and pits on teeth may be more reflective of environmental grit than of food
Peter S. Ungar +2 more
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The primate community of Cachoeira (Brazilian Amazonia): a model to decipher ecological partitioning among extinct species. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2011 Dental microwear analysis is conducted on a community of platyrrhine primates from South America. This analysis focuses on the primate community of Cachoeira Porteira (Para, Brazil), in which seven sympatric species occur: Alouatta seniculus, Ateles ...
Anusha Ramdarshan +3 more
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