European Miocene hominids and the origin of the African ape and human clade

DR Begun, MC Nargolwalla… - … : Issues, News, and …, 2012‏ - Wiley Online Library
Abstract In 1871, Darwin famously opined,“In each great region of the world the living
mammals are closely related to the extinct species of the same region. It is therefore …

[كتاب][B] Mammal teeth: origin, evolution, and diversity

PS Ungar - 2010‏ - books.google.com
Winner, 2010 PROSE Award for Excellence in the Biological Sciences. Professional and
Scholarly Publishing division of the Association of American Publishers In this unique book …

Dental microwear texture analysis: technical considerations

RS Scott, PS Ungar, TS Bergstrom, CA Brown… - Journal of human …, 2006‏ - Elsevier
Dental microwear analysis is commonly used to infer aspects of diet in extinct primates.
Conventional methods of microwear analysis have usually been limited to two-dimensional …

The Messinian diatomite deposition in the Mediterranean region and its relationships to the global silica cycle

L Pellegrino, FD Pierre, M Natalicchio… - Earth-Science …, 2018‏ - Elsevier
Diatomites constitute a widely represented lithology in the Messinian sections of the circum-
mediterranean Neogene marginal basins. Although traditionally interpreted as genuine …

The spread of grass-dominated habitats in Turkey and surrounding areas during the Cenozoic: phytolith evidence

CAE Strömberg, L Werdelin, EM Friis… - Palaeogeography …, 2007‏ - Elsevier
The arrival of hipparionine horses in the eastern Mediterranean region around 11 Ma was
traditionally thought to mark the simultaneous westward expansion of savanna vegetation …

[كتاب][B] The ichnology of vertebrate consumption: dentalites, gastroliths and bromalites

AP Hunt, SG Lucas - 2021‏ - books.google.com
There is a long tradition of indirectly inferring feeding in fossil and Recent vertebrates from
the functional morphology of bones and teeth. However, some trace fossils provide direct …

Dental microwear texture analysis of Varswater bovids and early Pliocene paleoenvironments of Langebaanweg, Western Cape Province, South Africa

PS Ungar, G Merceron, RS Scott - Journal of Mammalian Evolution, 2007‏ - Springer
The extensive early Pliocene mammalian assemblages at Langebaanweg hold the potential
to provide important information about paleoenvironments of the southwestern tip of Africa …

Dental microwear texture analysis of extant African Bovidae

JR Scott - 2012‏ - degruyter.com
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 …

Direct comparisons of 2D and 3D dental microwear proxies in extant herbivorous and carnivorous mammals

LRG DeSantis, JR Scott, BW Schubert, SL Donohue… - PLoS …, 2013‏ - journals.plos.org
The analysis of dental microwear is commonly used by paleontologists and anthropologists
to clarify the diets of extinct species, including herbivorous and carnivorous mammals …

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) …