Teeth provide a perfect vessel for reconstructing diet and behavior in the fossil record.
Dental microwear—that is, scratches, pits, or textures that form on the enamel surface due to …

Dental microwear texture (DMT) analysis is commonly applied for dietary reconstruction of
vertebrates. The temporal scale on which dietarily informative microscopic wear forms on …

Dietary information of fossil mammals can be revealed via the analysis of tooth morphology,
tooth wear, tooth geochemistry, and the microscopic wear patterns on tooth surfaces …

Dental microwear analysts have demonstrated that hard diets leave numerous microscopic
pits on occlusal surfaces. The relationship between occlusal pitting and gross macrowear …

Objective The etiology of dental microwear is incompletely understood, despite copious
documentation of wear patterns from wild and captive specimens across numerous …

Dental microwear studies often analyze casts rather than original surfaces, although the
information loss associated with reproduction is rarely considered. To investigate the …

Fifty years ago, investigators realized they could gain insights into jaw movement and tooth-
use through light-microscope analyses of wear patterns on teeth. Since then, numerous …

Dental microwear analysis is based on the assumption that a correlation exists between
ingested diet and microwear patterns on the enamel surface of teeth, such that diet can be …