#maystodon #FossilFriday Mastodons from Minooka, IL getting cleaned up for dental microwear sampling
May 2, 2025 at 5:11 PM
#maystodon #FossilFriday Mastodons from Minooka, IL getting cleaned up for dental microwear sampling
Size-driven dietary partitioning in Archaeotherium (the North American “Hell Pig”) revealed through dental microwear texture analysis www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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June 10, 2026 at 7:09 PM
Size-driven dietary partitioning in Archaeotherium (the North American “Hell Pig”) revealed through dental microwear texture analysis www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Usami, K., & Kubo, M. O. (2025). In-vitro puncture experiment using alligator teeth tracks the formation of dental microwear and its association with hardness of the diet. The Anatomical Record, 1–18. doi.org/10.1002/ar.2...
In‐vitro puncture experiment using alligator teeth tracks the formation of dental microwear and its association with hardness of the diet
With the development of dental microwear texture analysis (DMTA), there has been an increasing application of DMTA for dietary estimation in extant and fossil reptiles, including dinosaurs. While num...
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April 20, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Usami, K., & Kubo, M. O. (2025). In-vitro puncture experiment using alligator teeth tracks the formation of dental microwear and its association with hardness of the diet. The Anatomical Record, 1–18. doi.org/10.1002/ar.2...
For #fossilfriday, a new paper I was lucky enough to be invited to help with was published this week. Using dental microwear from fossil wolves to understand ecological resilience in modern wolves! Check it out: doi.org/10.1111/ele.... 🐺
Climate Change Challenges Grey Wolf Resilience: Insights From Dental Microwear
We investigate dietary plasticity in European grey wolves across interglacial periods using dental microwear texture analysis. Enhanced durophagy is associated with warm climates in both modern Polis...
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February 13, 2026 at 9:54 PM
For #fossilfriday, a new paper I was lucky enough to be invited to help with was published this week. Using dental microwear from fossil wolves to understand ecological resilience in modern wolves! Check it out: doi.org/10.1111/ele.... 🐺
a semiaquatic lifestyle for the proboscidean moeritherium appears to be confirmed by a new study on its enamel microwear by semprebon, sanders, and uttecht 🐘 vindicating its portrayal in 'walking with beasts' almost 25 years ago
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March 29, 2026 at 9:47 AM
a semiaquatic lifestyle for the proboscidean moeritherium appears to be confirmed by a new study on its enamel microwear by semprebon, sanders, and uttecht 🐘 vindicating its portrayal in 'walking with beasts' almost 25 years ago
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happy #fossilfriday! bonus: this is pakicetus, an early cetacean from eocene south asia. as the basal-most cetacean currently known, pakicetus was ambulatory on land, though its bone density, dental microwear, and position of the eyes could indicate semiaquatic habits
(art by sergio perez)
(art by sergio perez)
February 20, 2026 at 3:10 PM
happy #fossilfriday! bonus: this is pakicetus, an early cetacean from eocene south asia. as the basal-most cetacean currently known, pakicetus was ambulatory on land, though its bone density, dental microwear, and position of the eyes could indicate semiaquatic habits
(art by sergio perez)
(art by sergio perez)
Inter‐ and intraspecific variation in theropod dinosaur dental microwear and its palaeoecological implications - Morrison - The Anatomical Record - Wiley Online Library anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Inter‐ and intraspecific variation in theropod dinosaur dental microwear and its palaeoecological implications
Differences in skull and tooth morphology, stomach contents, and estimated bite force between medium-to-large sized (≥100 kg) predatory theropod dinosaurs have long been suspected to correlate with d...
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March 9, 2026 at 2:28 PM
Inter‐ and intraspecific variation in theropod dinosaur dental microwear and its palaeoecological implications - Morrison - The Anatomical Record - Wiley Online Library anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Last week, @paulodunoiglesias.bsky.social and Cristian Micó presented their dental microwear results at the OIKOS and @hugoobermaier.bsky.social conferences
April 30, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Last week, @paulodunoiglesias.bsky.social and Cristian Micó presented their dental microwear results at the OIKOS and @hugoobermaier.bsky.social conferences
Much can be said about what a species ate based on the form of their teeth.
Using a tooth microwear approach, researchers in Science find that a narrow diet was not responsible for the extinction of short-faced kangaroos.
Learn more in this week's issue: https://scim.ag/4aiqdCQ
Using a tooth microwear approach, researchers in Science find that a narrow diet was not responsible for the extinction of short-faced kangaroos.
Learn more in this week's issue: https://scim.ag/4aiqdCQ
January 9, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Much can be said about what a species ate based on the form of their teeth.
Using a tooth microwear approach, researchers in Science find that a narrow diet was not responsible for the extinction of short-faced kangaroos.
Learn more in this week's issue: https://scim.ag/4aiqdCQ
Using a tooth microwear approach, researchers in Science find that a narrow diet was not responsible for the extinction of short-faced kangaroos.
Learn more in this week's issue: https://scim.ag/4aiqdCQ
🚨 PhD opportunity 🚨 Join @palevoprim.bsky.social as part of the #ReVol project (@cnrs.fr & Wits Joint PhD Programme)! Spend 3 years investigating the southern African fossil cercopithecoids to reconstruct past ecology and behavior through skeletal morphology and dental microwear.
July 2, 2026 at 9:21 AM
🚨 PhD opportunity 🚨 Join @palevoprim.bsky.social as part of the #ReVol project (@cnrs.fr & Wits Joint PhD Programme)! Spend 3 years investigating the southern African fossil cercopithecoids to reconstruct past ecology and behavior through skeletal morphology and dental microwear.
"you can't get very much info from a single fossil" geochem, isotopes, histo, microwear, pathology, osteo correlates, provenance, erosion.
March 27, 2026 at 2:37 AM
"you can't get very much info from a single fossil" geochem, isotopes, histo, microwear, pathology, osteo correlates, provenance, erosion.
Dental microwear and diet of the latest Miocene ape in southern China (Lufengpithecus lufengensis) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Dental microwear and diet of the latest Miocene ape in southern China (Lufengpithecus lufengensis)
Lufengpithecus lufengensis is the latest known Miocene ape in southern China, surviving into an interval of increasingly variable and seasonal conditi…
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March 25, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Dental microwear and diet of the latest Miocene ape in southern China (Lufengpithecus lufengensis) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
dental microwear texture analysis of extant sirenians
December 21, 2025 at 10:24 PM
dental microwear texture analysis of extant sirenians
Winkler, D.E., Tschopp, E., Saleiro, A. et al. Dental microwear texture analysis reveals behavioural, ecological and habitat signals in Late Jurassic sauropod dinosaur faunas. Nat Ecol Evol (2025). doi.org/10.1038/s415...
Dental microwear texture analysis reveals behavioural, ecological and habitat signals in Late Jurassic sauropod dinosaur faunas - Nature Ecology & Evolution
The authors compare tooth wear patterns from three Late Jurassic sauropod faunas in North America, Portugal and Tanzania and find that different regions and climate regimes seem to have had distinctiv...
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July 18, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Winkler, D.E., Tschopp, E., Saleiro, A. et al. Dental microwear texture analysis reveals behavioural, ecological and habitat signals in Late Jurassic sauropod dinosaur faunas. Nat Ecol Evol (2025). doi.org/10.1038/s415...
Dental microwear analysis of Neogene cercopithecoids from the Turkana Basin suggests diets focused on leaves and grasses, aligning with Theropithecus and Trachypithecus:
Dental microwear of Neogene cercopithecoids from the Turkana Basin, Kenya
Reconstructions of the diets of individual fossil species can help us better understand the adaptive radiations of higher-level primate taxa. Some res…
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March 11, 2025 at 6:33 AM
Dental microwear analysis of Neogene cercopithecoids from the Turkana Basin suggests diets focused on leaves and grasses, aligning with Theropithecus and Trachypithecus:
Panthera atrox’s skull (right; compared to P. leo on the left) looks like a scary robust chompy thing, but a study analyzing its dental microwear revealed that it was like a cheetah in its eating habits. It was no bone-crusher. #FossilFriday
October 31, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Panthera atrox’s skull (right; compared to P. leo on the left) looks like a scary robust chompy thing, but a study analyzing its dental microwear revealed that it was like a cheetah in its eating habits. It was no bone-crusher. #FossilFriday
Like microwear analysis?
Like Deleuze-inflected theory?
Like the Neolithic & Bronze Age?
Like hundreds of object studies?
Given that is a Venn diagram that doesn’t even include all the authors, probably not. But indulge me & download this anyway
link.springer.com/epdf/10.1007...
Like Deleuze-inflected theory?
Like the Neolithic & Bronze Age?
Like hundreds of object studies?
Given that is a Venn diagram that doesn’t even include all the authors, probably not. But indulge me & download this anyway
link.springer.com/epdf/10.1007...
‘A Life Proper to Matter’: Re-Animating Museum Collections Through New Materialism and Microwear
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May 28, 2026 at 9:42 AM
Like microwear analysis?
Like Deleuze-inflected theory?
Like the Neolithic & Bronze Age?
Like hundreds of object studies?
Given that is a Venn diagram that doesn’t even include all the authors, probably not. But indulge me & download this anyway
link.springer.com/epdf/10.1007...
Like Deleuze-inflected theory?
Like the Neolithic & Bronze Age?
Like hundreds of object studies?
Given that is a Venn diagram that doesn’t even include all the authors, probably not. But indulge me & download this anyway
link.springer.com/epdf/10.1007...
so, an hour later, there's a new study that uses dental microwear analysis to confirm a partly osteophaguous diet for the mesonychid dissacus, explicitly comparing it to hyenas www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
both the cranial and postcranial anatomy of these massive mesonychids shows remarkable convergence with hyenas, arguably the most famous scavengers in the animal kingdom; however, not even hyenas are pure scavengers, and are in fact very successful hunters when need be
June 13, 2025 at 4:17 PM
so, an hour later, there's a new study that uses dental microwear analysis to confirm a partly osteophaguous diet for the mesonychid dissacus, explicitly comparing it to hyenas www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
New article out today!
One species, many signals: Interpreting dental microwear textures and mesowear in mixed-feeding springbok (Antidorcas marsupialis) across biomes in modern and Pleistocene systems
Springbok have even more variable diets than we assumed!
authors.elsevier.com/c/1nRz0_j8p2...
One species, many signals: Interpreting dental microwear textures and mesowear in mixed-feeding springbok (Antidorcas marsupialis) across biomes in modern and Pleistocene systems
Springbok have even more variable diets than we assumed!
authors.elsevier.com/c/1nRz0_j8p2...
July 16, 2026 at 3:38 PM
New article out today!
One species, many signals: Interpreting dental microwear textures and mesowear in mixed-feeding springbok (Antidorcas marsupialis) across biomes in modern and Pleistocene systems
Springbok have even more variable diets than we assumed!
authors.elsevier.com/c/1nRz0_j8p2...
One species, many signals: Interpreting dental microwear textures and mesowear in mixed-feeding springbok (Antidorcas marsupialis) across biomes in modern and Pleistocene systems
Springbok have even more variable diets than we assumed!
authors.elsevier.com/c/1nRz0_j8p2...
Just out for #FossilFriday ! 🦕🌿New research employing DMTA on ornithopods reveals shifts in dental microwear during the Cretaceous. Phytolith-rich angiosperms may be the key to these changes. #DinosaurDiet #Evolution #Paleontology #microwear onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
December 1, 2023 at 3:06 PM
Just out for #FossilFriday ! 🦕🌿New research employing DMTA on ornithopods reveals shifts in dental microwear during the Cretaceous. Phytolith-rich angiosperms may be the key to these changes. #DinosaurDiet #Evolution #Paleontology #microwear onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
L. Asevedo et al. (2026)
Feeding ecology of Pleistocene herbivorous megamammals from southern Brazilian Amazon revealed by stable isotopes and stereoscopic microwear
Quaternary Science Reviews 383: 109993
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Feeding ecology of Pleistocene herbivorous megamammals from southern Brazilian Amazon revealed by stable isotopes and stereoscopic microwear
Quaternary Science Reviews 383: 109993
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Redirecting
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April 26, 2026 at 12:30 PM
L. Asevedo et al. (2026)
Feeding ecology of Pleistocene herbivorous megamammals from southern Brazilian Amazon revealed by stable isotopes and stereoscopic microwear
Quaternary Science Reviews 383: 109993
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Feeding ecology of Pleistocene herbivorous megamammals from southern Brazilian Amazon revealed by stable isotopes and stereoscopic microwear
Quaternary Science Reviews 383: 109993
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Awesome and essential work from my friend Daniella, if you're familiar with the dental microwear field you know how anticipated this work was! 🦷 🧪
Dental microwear texture analysis (DMTA) is key for dietary reconstruction, but different 'scopes yield variable results. Consistent diet signals found across 5 tested devices despite inter-device variation
Winkler & Kubo propose standardization anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Winkler & Kubo propose standardization anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
May 19, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Awesome and essential work from my friend Daniella, if you're familiar with the dental microwear field you know how anticipated this work was! 🦷 🧪
Morrison et al. - Dental Microwear and Theropod Niche Partitioning - Embargoed.
November 2, 2024 at 1:22 PM
Morrison et al. - Dental Microwear and Theropod Niche Partitioning - Embargoed.
Dental microwear and diets of mainland fossil Pongo from the Mid-Pleistocene of southern China 🏺🧪
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Comparing dental microwear texture of 2 samples Ganxian (Pongo weidenreichi: ~169 to ~362 ka) and Zhongshan (Pongo devosi: ∼184 ka)
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Comparing dental microwear texture of 2 samples Ganxian (Pongo weidenreichi: ~169 to ~362 ka) and Zhongshan (Pongo devosi: ∼184 ka)
August 7, 2024 at 4:33 PM
Dental microwear and diets of mainland fossil Pongo from the Mid-Pleistocene of southern China 🏺🧪
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Comparing dental microwear texture of 2 samples Ganxian (Pongo weidenreichi: ~169 to ~362 ka) and Zhongshan (Pongo devosi: ∼184 ka)
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Comparing dental microwear texture of 2 samples Ganxian (Pongo weidenreichi: ~169 to ~362 ka) and Zhongshan (Pongo devosi: ∼184 ka)