Dental microwear texture analysis (DMTA) has been instrumental in reconstructing dietary
ecology of extinct and extant carnivorans. Current sampling methods for canids focus on …

Dental microwear is used to investigate feeding ecology. Animals ingest geological material
in addition to food. The full effect of geological abrasives on tooth wear is unknown. To …

The craniodental morphology of the early Pliocene ursid Agriotherium africanum has been
studied extensively to reveal aspects of its dietary ecology. Results suggest that this large …

The study of dental wear was first used years ago to infer the palaeoecology of fossil
mammals and in particular their diet. Results depend predominantly on the scale of the …

Dental microwear texture pattern has been associated with aspects of diet for a broad range
of mammalian taxa. The basic idea is that soft, tough foods are sheared with a steeper angle …

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 …

Recently, dental microwear analysis has been successfully employed to xenarthran teeth.
Here, we present new data on use wear features on 16 molariforms of Orophodon …

Dental microwear research rests at the boundary between biology and engineering. More
specifically, it combines basic principles of ecology with tribology,“the science and …

Objectives The purpose of this investigation was to explore the role and interplay that bite
force has on the formation of microwear features upon the dentition of two-and three …

In response to DeSantis et al., we describe that the presence of phylogenetic signal in tooth
wear dietary niche proxies is likely a result of the evolutionary process. We also address …