Within‐guild dietary discrimination from 3‐Dtextural analysis of tooth microwear in insectivorous mammals [PDF]
Journal of Zoology, 2013 AbstractResource exploitation and competition for food are important selective pressures in animal evolution. A number of recent investigations have focused on linkages between diversification, trophic morphology and diet in bats, partly because their roosting habits mean that for many bat species diet can be quantified relatively easily through faecal
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Trophic evolution in ornithopod dinosaurs revealed by dental wear [PDF]
Nature CommunicationsOrnithopod dinosaurs evolved numerous craniodental innovations related to herbivory. Nonetheless, the relationship between occlusion, tooth wear rate, and tooth replacement rate has been neglected. Here, we reconstruct tooth wear rates by measuring tooth
Attila Ősi +9 more
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On the use of dental microwear texture analysis to determine aetiology and assess wear of dental tissues for clinical evaluation [PDF]
Biosurface and BiotribologyHere, we present and synthesise some recent collaborative efforts in our laboratories to establish protocols for using dental microwear texture analysis, originally developed to reconstruct diets of fossil mammals and to aid in the clinical assessment of
Peter S. Ungar, Anderson T. Hara
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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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Description of the skull, braincase, and dentition of Moschognathus whaitsi (Dinocephalia, Tapinocephalia), and its palaeobiological and behavioral implications. [PDF]
Anat Rec (Hoboken)Abstract A subadult Moschognathus whaitsi from the Eastern Cape Province, South Africa, was scanned using synchrotron radiation X‐ray computed tomography (SRXCT). Its subadult state allowed the cranial bones and teeth to be identified and individually reconstructed in 3D.
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Reconstruction of feeding behaviour and diet in Devonian ctenacanth chondrichthyans using dental microwear texture and finite element analyses [PDF]
Royal Society Open ScienceDevonian ctenacanth chondrichthyans reached body sizes similar to modern great white sharks and therefore might have been apex predators of the Devonian seas.
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Neandertal predation agenda reveals seasonal strategies during MIS 5–4 transition in Axlor, northatlantic Iberia [PDF]
Scientific ReportsAs hunter-gatherers, neandertal groups were mobile, moving within their territory based on the availability of targeted resources. Their mobility was an integral part of their subsistence strategies.
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Tooth microwear formation rate in Gasterosteus aculeatus. [PDF]
J Fish Biol, 2014 Tooth microwear feature densities were significantly increased in a population of laboratory‐reared three‐spined stickleback Gasterosteus aculeatus in four days, after they were transferred from a limnetic feeding regime to a benthic feeding regime. These results show that even in aquatic vertebrates with non‐occluding teeth, changes in feeding can ...
Baines DC, Purnell MA, Hart PJ.
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Lifestyle changes and its effect towards the evolution of human dentition
Egyptian Journal of Forensic Sciences, 2022 Background The dentition of modern humans has evolved from their hominid ancestors to their current form. Factors regarding the changes of lifestyle such as dietary habits and usage of tools have affected the evolution of human dentition.
Arofi Kurniawan +5 more
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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.
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