Browsing by Subject "Molar"
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Dental microwear in live, wild-trapped Alouatta palliata from Costa Rica.
(Am J Phys Anthropol, 1991-07)One problem with dental microwear analyses of museum material is that investigators can never be sure of the diets of the animals in question. An obvious solution to this problem is to work with live animals. Recent work ... -
Dietary inference from upper and lower molar morphology in platyrrhine primates.
(PLoS One, 2015)The correlation between diet and dental topography is of importance to paleontologists seeking to diagnose ecological adaptations in extinct taxa. Although the subject is well represented in the literature, few studies directly ... -
Oldest known cranium of a juvenile New World monkey (Early Miocene, Patagonia, Argentina): implications for the taxonomy and the molar eruption pattern of early platyrrhines.
(J Hum Evol, 2014-09)A juvenile cranium of Homunculus patagonicus Ameghino, 1891a from the late Early Miocene of Santa Cruz Province (Argentina) provides the first evidence of developing cranial anatomy for any fossil platyrrhine. The specimen ... -
Smooth operator: The effects of different 3D mesh retriangulation protocols on the computation of Dirichlet normal energy.
(American journal of physical anthropology, 2017-05)Dirichlet normal energy (DNE) is a metric of surface topography that has been used to evaluate the relationship between the surface complexity of primate cheek teeth and dietary categories. This study examines the effects ... -
The effect of differences in methodology among some recent applications of shearing quotients.
(Am J Phys Anthropol, 2015-01)A shearing quotient (SQ) is a way of quantitatively representing the Phase I shearing edges on a molar tooth. Ordinary or phylogenetic least squares regression is fit to data on log molar length (independent variable) and ...
