Dental Microwear and Diet of the Plio-Pleistocene Hominin Paranthropus boisei

PS Ungar, FE Grine, MF Teaford - PLoS one, 2008 - journals.plos.org
… Here we evaluate two hypotheses using dental microwear texture analysis: 1) Paranthropus
boisei regularly consumed mechanically challenging foods (hard or tough); and 2) …

Dental microwear texture analysis reveals a likely dietary shift within Late Cretaceous ornithopod dinosaurs

T Kubo, MO Kubo, M Sakamoto, DE Winkler… - …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
dental microwear texture analysis (DMTA), an approach that quantifies microtopography
of diet-induced wear marks on tooth … have significantly rougher dental microwear texture (DMT) …

[HTML][HTML] Error rates and observer bias in dental microwear analysis using light microscopy

MC Mihlbachler, BL Beatty, A Caldera-Siu, D Chan… - 2012 - palaeo-electronica.org
Dental microwear also provides a means to test paleodietary … Dental microwear may
also reveal novel aspects of … While dental microwear is clearly a valuable paleoecological …

[PDF][PDF] Inter-microscope comparability of dental microwear texture data obtained from different optical profilometers

DE Winkler, MO Kubo - bioRxiv [Preprint], 2022 - researchgate.net
… 33 summarized under the moniker dental microwear texture analysis (DMTA). Within
DMTA, 34 different algorithms are applied to quantify surface texture patterns according to …

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 …

Grit your teeth and chew your food: Implications of food material properties and abrasives for rates of dental microwear formation in laboratory Sapajus apella …

MF Teaford, CF Ross, PS Ungar, CJ Vinyard… - Palaeogeography …, 2021 - Elsevier
… study would be to include analyses of dental microwear texture before and after each of the
… of dental microwear features caused in both experiments suggests that dental microwear

Feeding ecology and chewing mechanics in hoofed mammals: 3D tribology of enamel wear

E Schulz, I Calandra, TM Kaiser - Wear, 2013 - Elsevier
… of surface texture are more likely to be ground down, either by attrition (toothtooth contact)
Dental microwear and palaeoecology of bovids from the Early Pliocene of Langebaanweg, …

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 …

Three-dimensional dental microwear texture analysis and diet in extant Suidae (Mammalia: Cetartiodactyla)

A Souron, G Merceron, C Blondel, N Brunetière… - Mammalia, 2015 - degruyter.com
dental microwear texture analysis (3D-DMTA) to develop a set of dual data combining dietary
habits and microwear … Oyen 1989), the dental microwear texture is an appropriate proxy to …

What do we know and not know about dental microwear and diet

MF Teaford - Evolution of the human diet: the known, the …, 2007 - books.google.com
… about dental microwear stems from what might be called the direct effects of food on teeth. …
Thus, while we often have significant differences in dental microwear between teeth from …