Functional Characterization of Ungulate Molars Using the Abrasion-Attrition Wear Gradient: A New Method for Reconstructing Paleodiets

By Mikael Fortelius, N. Solounias. 2000

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The Late Miocene paleoenvironment of Afghanistan as inferred from dental microwear in artiodactyls (2004, background): “The dental microwear pattern of extant species fluctuates according to the food items that were consumed prior the death of the animal (Solounias et al., 1988; Teaford and Oyen, 1989; Fortelius and Solounias, 2000).”
Differential mesowear in the maxillary and mandibular cheek dentition of some ruminants (Artiodactyla) (2003, methodology): “5) The upper tooth sample of G. camelopardalis (Gc(txM2)) shares the same subcluster within the browser spectrum as the comparison population by Fortelius and Solounias (2000).”
Microwear evidence for Plio–Pleistocene bovid diets from Makapansgat Limeworks Cave, South Africa (2006, methodology): “…14 Nearly pure browser, leaves, herbs, fruits, succulents, vines, tubers, flowers Diet descriptions compiled from the following references (Stewart and Stewart, 1970; Jacobsen, 1974; Leuthold, 1978; Estes, 1991; Murray, 1993; Kingdon, 1997; Fortelius and Solounias, 2000; Gagnon and Chew, 2000).”
Dental Microwear Texture Analysis of Varswater Bovids and Early Pliocene Paleoenvironments of Langebaanweg, Western Cape Province, South Africa (2007, background): “In contrast, the tall grass specialist, Redunca arundinum has the lowest complexity, whereas grazers with more variable diets (e.g., Hippotragus niger and Oryx gazella) have higher Asfc values (Estes 1991; Kingdon 1997; Fortelius and Solounias 2000; Gagnon and Chew 2000).”
Extending the tooth mesowear method to extinct and extant equids (2003, methodology): “Une nouvelle approche pour reconstruire le régime des ongulés a été proposée récemment par Fortelius & Solounias (2000) : la méthode du « mesowear ».”
Dietary flexibility and niche partitioning of large herbivores through the Pleistocene of Britain (2016, methodology): “Mesowear analysis, first introduced by Fortelius and Solounias (2000), is a method of categorizing the gross dental wear of ungulate molars by evaluating the relief and sharpness of cusp apices in ways that are correlated with the relative amounts of attritive and abrasive dental wear (due to…”
Fossil mammals resolve regional patterns of Eurasian climate change over 20 million years (2002, background): “There is a growing consensus that many species of Neogene hypsodont equids were mixed feeders and even browsers (Hayek et al., 1991; Quade et al., 1994; MacFadden et al., 1999; Kaiser et al., 2000), and the same is evidently true of the hypsodont ruminants (Fortelius and Solounias, 2000).”
Evidence for geographic variation in the diets of late Pleistocene and early Holocene Bison in North America, and differences from the diets of recent Bison (2007, methodology): “Mesowear reflects the cumulative effect of diet, thus having an ecologically significant signal (Fortelius and Solounias, 2000).”
Dental microwear of fossil bovids from northern Greece: paleoenvironmental conditions in the eastern Mediterranean during the Messinian (2005, background): “Dental microwear results from the abrasion of teeth by food items which are consumed during the last days prior to the death of the animal (Solounias et al., 1988; Teaford and Oyen, 1989; Fortelius and Solounias, 2000; Merceron et al., 2004a,b).”
Tracing the ecophysiology of ungulates and predator–prey relationships in an early Pleistocene large mammal community (2008, background): “predicting the diet of extinct ones), in some species molar crown height alone may be insufficient to determine their feeding preferences (Fortelius and Solounias, 2000; Mendoza et al., 2002 ; Mendoza and Palmqvist, 2008).”
Precipitation and large herbivorous mammals I: estimates from present-day communities (2010, methodology): “We gathered the data from published literature sources (Janis, 1988, 1995; Janis and Fortelius, 1988; Nowak, 1991; Wilson and Ruff, 1999; Fortelius and Solounias, 2000; Smith et al., 2003; Wilson and Reeder, 2005; Myers et al., 2007; NatureServe, 2007), and complemented these with unpublished data…”
Hypsodonty and tooth facet development in relation to diet and habitat in herbivorous ungulates: implications for understanding tooth wear (2013, methodology): “Analyses that include the mesowear signal are usually less straightforward than simple correlations because in its original version, the mesowear signal is composed of a set of categorical data (Fortelius & Solounias 2000).”
Mammalian dental function and wear: A review (2015, unknown): “Indeed, many mammals actually need their teeth to be worn in order for them to be able to ef ﬁ ciently fracture food items [5,65,66].”