[HTML][HTML] Mammalian dental function and wear: a review

PS Ungar - Biosurface and Biotribology, 2015 - Elsevier
This paper presents a brief synopsis of work on relationships between mammalian tooth
form and function, and considers the role of dental wear in studies of mammal teeth …

Hypsodonty and tooth facet development in relation to diet and habitat in herbivorous ungulates: implications for understanding tooth wear

TM Kaiser, DWH Müller, M Fortelius, E Schulz… - Mammal …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
The evolution of high‐crowned teeth or hypsodonty in herbivorous mammals is widely
interpreted as a species‐specific adaptation to increasingly wear‐inducing diets and …

Dietary flexibility and niche partitioning of large herbivores through the Pleistocene of Britain

F Rivals, AM Lister - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2016 - Elsevier
Tooth wear analysis techniques (mesowear and microwear) are employed to analyze
dietary traits in proboscideans, perissodactyls and artiodactyls from 33 Pleistocene localities …

Was grass more prevalent in the pronghorn past? An assessment of the dietary adaptations of Miocene to recent Antilocapridae (Mammalia: Artiodactyla)

GM Semprebon, F Rivals - Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology …, 2007 - Elsevier
Molar teeth of both Tertiary and Quaternary representatives of the family Antilocapridae were
examined using mesowear and light stereomicroscopy microwear. Taxa from the Central …

Effect of ontogenetic-age distribution in fossil and modern samples on the interpretation of ungulate paleodiets using the mesowear method

F Rivals, MC Mihlbachler… - Journal of Vertebrate …, 2007 - Taylor & Francis
Dental wear patterns are strongly influenced by diet; thus, dental wear analysis is
informative of the paleodiets of extinct species and ancient populations of extant species …

Controlled feeding trials with ungulates: a new application of in vivo dental molding to assess the abrasive factors of microwear

JM Hoffman, D Fraser… - The Journal of …, 2015 - journals.biologists.com
Microwear, the quantification of microscopic scratches and pits on the occlusal surfaces of
tooth enamel, is commonly used as a paleodietary proxy. For ungulates (hoofed mammals) …

Using dental mesowear and microwear for dietary inference: a review of current techniques and applications

JL Green, DA Croft - Methods in paleoecology: Reconstructing Cenozoic …, 2018 - Springer
Mesowear and microwear analyses use data from worn tooth surfaces as proxies for feeding
ecology. Mesowear is based on gross dental wear and forms over months to years. The …

The history of mesowear: a review

NL Ackermans - PeerJ, 2020 - peerj.com
Published mesowear data was reviewed from the year 2000 to November 2019 (211
publications, 707 species, 1,396 data points). Mesowear is a widely applied tooth wear …

Trends in the paleodietary habits of fossil camels from the Tertiary and Quaternary of North America

GM Semprebon, F Rivals - Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology …, 2010 - Elsevier
Dietary adaptations of both Tertiary and Quaternary representatives of North American
Camelidae were examined through deep evolutionary time (via hypsodonty index), though …

The inter-relationship between dietary and environmental properties and tooth wear: comparisons of mesowear, molar wear rate, and hypsodonty index of extant sika …

MO Kubo, E Yamada - PLoS One, 2014 - journals.plos.org
In reference to the evolutionary trend of increasing cheek tooth height in herbivorous
ungulates, the causes of dental abrasion have long been debated. Interspecific comparisons …