Paleodontology

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • Dental microwear and diet: implications for determining the feeding behaviors of extinct primates, with a comment on the dietary pattern of Sivapithecus. 
  • Earliest record of Platychoerops (Primates, Plesiadapidae), a new species from Mouras Quarry, Mont de Berru, France. 
  • Evidence of dietary differentiation among late Paleocene-early Eocene plesiadapids (Mammalia, primates). 
  • Identification of Euro-Americans, Afro-Americans, and Amerindians from palatal dimensions. 
  • Letter: Allometry and early hominids. 
  • Mandibular remains support taxonomic validity of Australopithecus sediba. 
  • New early eocene anaptomorphine primate (Omomyidae) from the Washakie Basin, Wyoming, with comments on the phylogeny and paleobiology of anaptomorphines. 
  • Rethinking primate origins 
  • Sexual dimorphism in early anthropoids. 
  • The dietary adaptations of European Miocene catarrhines. 
  • The evolution of molar occlusion in the Cercopithecidae and early Catarrhines. 
  • The first major primate extinction: An evaluation of paleoecological dynamics of North American stem primates using a homology free measure of tooth shape. 
  • Trends in the evolution of primate mastication.