Neoecology and paleoecology both seek to answer the same questions, albeit using
different material, at different time scales and with different limitations. Nevertheless, too …

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 …

Dental microwear texture (DMT) analysis is commonly applied for dietary reconstruction of
vertebrates. The temporal scale on which dietarily informative microscopic wear forms on …

Tooth wear analysis techniques (mesowear and microwear) are employed to analyze
dietary traits in proboscideans, perissodactyls and artiodactyls from 33 Pleistocene localities …

Recent studies have shown that phytoliths are softer than dental enamel but still act as
abrasive agents. Thus, phytolith content should be reflected in dental wear. Because native …

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) …

Dental microwear analysis is a proxy for analysing the diet in extinct and extant vertebrates,
especially mammals. The limits of these approaches are still rather poorly known, especially …

Abstract Mosasaurs (Squamata, Mosasauridae) were large aquatic reptiles from the Late
Cretaceous that filled a range of ecological niches within marine ecosystems. The type …

The fossils preserved in the Rancho La Brea" tar" seeps in southern California span the
past∼ 50,000 years and provide a rare opportunity to assess the ecology of predators (eg …

Lepidosauria show a large diversity in dietary adaptations, both among extant and extinct
tetrapods. Unlike mammals, Lepidosauria do not engage in sophisticated mastication of …