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Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2022 Dental microwear texture analysis (DMTA) is rapidly expanding for the dietary estimation of extinct animals. There has been an extensive accumulation of microwear texture data from herbivorous mammals, especially for ruminant artiodactyls, but suids are ...
Kohga Miyamoto +2 more
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The impact of sediment abrasion on tooth microwear analysis: an experimental study
Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, 2021 Dental microwear analysis is a proxy for analysing the diet in extinct and extant vertebrates, especially mammals. The limits of these approaches are still rather poorly known, especially in terms of taphonomic impacts. Indeed, several physical or chemical phenomena may have altered the microscopic features linked to the diet and compromised their ...
Uzunidis, Antigone +5 more
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Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2022 Dental wear analyses are classically applied to mammals because they have evolved heterodont dentitions for sophisticated mastication. Recently, several studies have shown a correlation between pre-assigned and analytically inferred diet preferences in ...
Daniela E. Winkler +8 more
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Accuracy of dental microwear impressions by physical properties of silicone materials
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2022 Dental microwear analysis is an oft-used paleodietary estimation method, and the impression molds or resin casts are often analyzed rather than the original tooth surfaces.
Ryohei Sawaura +5 more
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An eye for a tooth: Thylacosmilus was not a marsupial “saber-tooth predator” [PDF]
PeerJ, 2020 Background Saber-toothed mammals, now all extinct, were cats or “cat-like” forms with enlarged, blade-like upper canines, proposed as specialists in taking large prey.
Christine M. Janis +3 more
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Behavioral strategies of prehistoric and historic children from dental microwear texture analysis
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2022 IntroductionReconstructing the dietary and behavioral strategies of our hominin ancestors is crucial to understanding their evolution, adaptation, and overall way of life.
Almudena Estalrrich +2 more
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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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Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2022 In mammals, complex dental microwear textures (DMT) representing differently sized and shaped enamel lesions overlaying each other have traditionally been associated with the seeds and kernels in frugivorous diets, as well as with sclerotized insect ...
Daniela E. Winkler +12 more
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Dental microwear texture analysis as a tool for dietary discrimination in elasmobranchs
Scientific Reports, 2021 As abundant and widespread predators, elasmobranchs play influential roles in food-web dynamics of marine communities. Clearly, these trophic interactions have significant implications for fisheries management and marine conservation, yet elasmobranch ...
Laura J. McLennan, Mark A. Purnell
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Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2023 The genus Macaca belongs to Cercopithecidae (Old World monkeys), Cercopithecinae, Papionini. The presence of Macaca in North Africa is well known from the Late Miocene to the Late Pleistocene.
Iván Ramírez-Pedraza +26 more
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