Neoecology and paleoecology both seek to answer the same questions, albeit using
different material, at different time scales and with different limitations. Nevertheless, too …

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 …

This work studies multiscale analyses and characterizations of surface topographies from
the engineering and scientific literature with an emphasis on production engineering …

Both dust and silica phytoliths have been shown to contribute to reducing tooth volume
during chewing. However, the way and the extent to which they individually contribute to …

Dental microwear has long been used as evidence concerning the diets of extinct species.
Here, we present a comparative baseline series of dental microwear textures for a sample of …

Dental microwear and 3D surface texture analyses are useful in reconstructing herbivore
diets, with scratches usually interpreted as indicators of grass dominated diets and pits as …

Although patterns of tooth wear are crucial in palaeo‐reconstructions, and dental wear
abnormalities are important in veterinary medicine, experimental investigations on the …

Determining the diet of an extinct species is paramount in any attempt to reconstruct its
paleoecology. Because the distribution and mechanical properties of food items may impact …

Mammals inhabit all types of environments and have evolved chewing systems capable of
processing a huge variety of structurally diverse food components. Surface textures of cheek …

Bovids are often used as paleoenvironmental proxies because they are among the most
commonly recovered large mammals at many fossil hominin sites and because modern …