High‐crowned (hypsodont) teeth are widely found among both extant and extinct
mammalian herbivores. Extant grazing ungulates (hoofed mammals) have hypsodont teeth …

Nayuta Yamashita is an assistant professor in the Department of Cell and Neurobiology in
the Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California. Her research interests …

Dental Functional Morphology offers an alternative to the received wisdom that teeth merely
crush, cut, shear or grind food and shows how teeth adapt to diet. Providing an analysis of …

A new and greatly simplified methodology for the assessment of the dietary adaptations of
living and fossil taxa has been developed which allows for microwear scar topography to be …

The wear of teeth is a major factor limiting mammalian lifespans in the wild. One method of
describing worn surfaces, dental microwear texture analysis, has proved powerful for …

There is considerable literature suggesting that silica (opal) phytoliths cause dental enamel
microwear in mammals. Much of this literature cites a single study from 1959 as evidence …

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 …

Hypsodonty has long been recognized as an adaptation for grazing: grazing is suggested to
increase tooth wear due to endogenous (eg, fiber, silica) and/or exogenous (eg, dust, grit) …

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 …

Ingesta leaves distinct patterns on mammalian teeth during mastication. However, an
unresolved challenge is how to include intraspecific variability into dietary reconstruction …