The effectiveness of using carbonate isotope measurements of body tissues to infer diet in human evolution: Evidence from wild western chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes verus)* [PDF]
, 2015 Changes in diet throughout hominin evolution have been linked with important evolutionary changes. Stable carbon isotope analysis of inorganic apatite carbonate is the main isotopic method used to reconstruct fossil hominin diets; to test its ...
Boesch, Christophe +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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Fracture in teeth—a diagnostic for inferring bite force and tooth function [PDF]
, 2011 Teeth are brittle and highly susceptible to cracking. We propose that observations of such cracking can be used as a diagnostic tool for predicting bite force and inferring tooth function in living and fossil mammals.
Constantino, Paul J +3 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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Fossil pollen records reveal a late rise of open-habitat ecosystems in Patagonia [PDF]
, 2012 The timing of major turnovers in terrestrial ecosystems of the Cenozoic Era has been largely interpreted from the analysis of the assumed feeding preference of extinct mammals. For example, the expansion of open-habitat ecosystems (grasslands or savannas)
Barreda, Viviana Dora, Palazzesi, Luis
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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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Gazelle seasonal mobility in the Jordanian steppe: The use of dental isotopes and microwear as environmental markers, applied to Epipalaeolithic Kharaneh IV [PDF]
, 2017 The Early/Middle Epipalaeolithic aggregation site of Kharaneh IV in the east Jordan steppe is one of the largest of the period, showing repeated use, high degrees of site investment, and relatively prolonged periods of occupation.
Boles, O +5 more
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Swiss Journal of PalaeontologyDental microwear analysis is a well-established technique that provides valuable information about the diets of extant and extinct taxa. It has been used effectively in most major groups of vertebrates.
María Victoria Paredes-Aliaga +2 more
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The Influence of Fallback Foods on Great Ape Tooth Enamel [PDF]
, 2009 Lucas and colleagues recently proposed a model based on fracture and deformation concepts to describe how mammalian tooth enamel may be adapted to the mechanical demands of diet (Lucas et al.: Bioessays 30[2008] 374-385). Here we review the applicability
Constantino, Paul J +3 more
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