Dietary differences in archosaur and lepidosaur reptiles revealed by dental microwear textural analysis

J Bestwick, DM Unwin, MA Purnell - Scientific Reports, 2019 - nature.com
… that dental microwear textures on non-occlusal tooth surfaces … Microwear textures of
invertebrate consumers and … carnivore textures, which in turn are rougher than piscivore textures. …

Dental Microwear Texture Analysis of Pliocene Bovids from Four Early Hominin Sites in Eastern Africa: Implications for Paleoenvironmental Dynamics and Human …

JR Scott - 2012 - scholarworks.uark.edu
… High resolution casts of 220 fossil bovids from the four sites and 575 extant African bovids
were scanned for dental microwear textures using a white-light confocal profiler. Four …

Evidence that metallic proxies are unsuitable for assessing the mechanics of microwear formation and a new theory of the meaning of microwear

A van Casteren, PW Lucas… - Royal Society …, 2018 - royalsocietypublishing.org
… We propose that the key variable affecting the formation of dental microwear textures is …
dental microwear textures preserve dietary information, namely, that highly anisotropic textures

Sumatran orangutan diets in the Late Pleistocene as inferred from dental microwear texture analysis

J Louys, Y Zaim, Y Rizal, M Puspaningrum… - Quaternary …, 2021 - Elsevier
… western Sumatra, using dental microwear texture analysis. We … anisotropy values in orangutan
dental microwear may be an … Dental microwear data for Pongo pygmaeus analyzed in the …

Identifying the impact of soil Ingestion on dental microwear textures using a wild boar experimental model

M Louail, L Caner, D Neaux, K Ortiz, Y Locatelli… - … Method and Theory, 2023 - Springer
… in dental microwear. It provides the opportunity to investigate the impact of natural soil
ingestion over microwear … We performed 3D Dental microwear texture analysis (DMTA) on 22 …

Non-occlusal dental microwear texture analysis of a titanosauriform sauropod dinosaur from the Upper Cretaceous (Turonian) Tamagawa Formation, northeastern …

H Sakaki, DE Winkler, T Kubo, R Hirayama, H Uno… - Cretaceous …, 2022 - Elsevier
… Because comparable DMTA data of other sauropods or herbivore dinosaurs do not exist
so far, we compared the dental microwear texture of the Kuji sauropod to that of extant …

[HTML][HTML] … of feeding ecology in Pleistocene proboscideans from southern China (Sinomastodon, Stegodon, Elephas), by means of dental microwear texture analysis

H Zhang, Y Wang, CM Janis, RH Goodall… - Quaternary …, 2017 - Elsevier
… Here, we apply three-dimensional dental microwear texture analysis (DMTA) to three …
The texture of microwear in Sinomastodon and Stegodon are more reflective of browsing, …

Dental microwear of small mammals as a high resolution paleohabitat proxy: opportunities and challenges

M Belmaker - Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 2018 - Elsevier
… This paper reviews the history of small mammal microwear … diet, habitat and dental microwear
features and texture. The … Since the focus of this paper is the utility of dental microwear in …

Rodent Dental Microwear Texture Analysis as a Proxy for Fine-Scale Paleoenvironment Reconstruction

JHE Burgman - 2022 - search.proquest.com
Dental microwear texture analysis (DMTA) of fossil fauna has become a valuable tool for
dietary inference and paleoenvironment reconstruction. Most of this work has utilized larger …

Deciduous enamel 3D microwear texture analysis as an indicator of childhood diet in medieval Canterbury, England

P Mahoney, CW Schmidt, C Deter, A Remy… - Journal of …, 2016 - Elsevier
… This study conducted the first 3D intra-specific dental microwear texture analysis of childhood
diet… We conclude that deciduous dental microwear texture analyses hold great potential for …