Mai 2026 : publication American Journal of Biological Anthropology
Dental Microwear Texture Analysis of the Bornean Orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus) From the Selenka Collection
Characterizing the diet of extant taxa is important not only to determine their ecological niche but also to serve as a reference for dietary and niche inferences in evolutionary studies. Tracking the diets of fossil taxa and their change through time has been increasingly employed to further understand the evolution of primates. In the last decades, several studies using stable isotope analysis, dental topography, or dental microwear analysis have been conducted to reconstruct the paleoecology and diet of fossil pongines. However, paleodietary reconstructions based on the dental microwear of fossil pongines lacked a well-defined and extensive reference dataset of extant Pongo.
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Habinger, S. G., Merceron, G., van Heteren, A. H., Cuyutupa, V. R., Bocherens, H., & Chavasseau, O. (2026). Dental Microwear Texture Analysis of the Bornean Orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus) From the Selenka Collection. American Journal of Biological Anthropology, 190(1), e70266 – DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.70266