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Dental microwear texture analysis on extant and extinct sharks: Ante- or post-mortem tooth wear?
Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 2021 Abstract Sharks are apex-predators that play an important role in past and present aquatic food webs. However, their diet - especially in extinct species - is often not well constrained. Dental microwear texture analysis (DMTA) has been successfully applied to reconstruct diet and feeding behaviours of different aquatic and terrestrial vertebrates ...
Weber, Katrin +4 more
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Diet in Mesolithic Europe: New evidence from dental microwear
Internet Archaeology, 2007 Palaeodietary reconstruction is a key to understanding Mesolithic lifeways. Dental microwear analysis is a tool for investigating palaeodiet using microscopic tooth wear patterns.
T. Rowan McLaughlin
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3D tooth microwear texture analysis in fishes as a test of dietary hypotheses of durophagy [PDF]
Surface Topography: Metrology and Properties, 2015 An understanding of how extinct animals functioned underpins our understanding of past evolutionary events, including adaptive radiations, and the role of functional innovation and adaptation as drivers of both micro- and macroevolution. Yet analysis of function in extinct animals is fraught with difficulty.
Purnell, Mark A., Darras, Laurent P. G.
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PLoS ONE, 2014 Megaherbivorous dinosaurs were exceptionally diverse on the Late Cretaceous island continent of Laramidia, and a growing body of evidence suggests that this diversity was facilitated by dietary niche partitioning. We test this hypothesis using the fossil
Jordan C Mallon, Jason S Anderson
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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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THE TUROLIAN HIPPARIONS FROM CIOBURCIU SITE (REPUBLIC OF MOLDOVA): SYSTEMATICS AND PALEODIET
Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia, 2022 The Cioburciu hipparions, Republic of Moldova, are included in a Turolian assemblage, approximately dated between 9 and 7 million years. We assess herein their taxonomic position, systematics, biogeography and paleodietary habits.
BOGDAN G. RĂŢOI +4 more
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PLoS ONE, 2017 Analyses of dental micro- and macro-wear offer valuable information about dietary adaptations. The buccal surface of the teeth does not undergo attrition, indicating that dental microwear may directly inform about food properties. Only a few studies have,
Alice M Percher +5 more
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Wear patterns and dental functioning in an Early Cretaceous stegosaur from Yakutia, Eastern Russia.
PLoS ONE, 2021 Isolated stegosaurian teeth from the Early Cretaceous high-latitude (palaeolatitude estimate of N 62°- 66.5°) Teete locality in Yakutia (Eastern Siberia, Russia) are characterized by a labiolingually compressed, slightly asymmetrical and mesiodistally ...
Pavel P Skutschas +11 more
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Royal Society Open Science, 2022 The Upper Cretaceous Winton Formation of Queensland, Australia, has produced several partial sauropod skeletons, but cranial remains—including teeth—remain rare.
Stephen F. Poropat +6 more
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Implications of diet for the extinction of saber-toothed cats and American lions. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2012 The saber-toothed cat, Smilodon fatalis, and American lion, Panthera atrox, were among the largest terrestrial carnivores that lived during the Pleistocene, going extinct along with other megafauna ∼12,000 years ago.
Larisa R G Desantis +3 more
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