Further away with dental microwear analysis: Food resource partitioning among Plio-Pleistocene monkeys from the Shungura Formation, Ethiopia
2021
Merceron, Gildas | Kallend, Auria | Francisco, Arthur | Louail, Margot | Martin, Florian | Plastiras, Christos-Alexandros | Thiery, Ghislain | Boisserie, Jean-Renaud | Laboratoire de paléontologie, évolution, paléoécosystèmes, paléoprimatologie [UMR 7262] (Palevoprim [Poitiers]) ; Université de Poitiers = University of Poitiers (UP)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) | Centre Européen de Recherche et d'Enseignement des Géosciences de l'Environnement (CEREGE) ; Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Collège de France (CdF (institution))-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE) | Mécanique des interfaces lubrifiées [Institut Pprime] (TriboLub) ; Département Génie Mécanique et Systèmes Complexes [Institut Pprime] (Département GMSC) ; Institut Pprime [UPR 3346] (PPrime [Poitiers]) ; Université de Poitiers = University of Poitiers (UP)-École Nationale Supérieure de Mécanique et d’Aérotechnique [Poitiers] (ISAE-ENSMA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Poitiers = University of Poitiers (UP)-École Nationale Supérieure de Mécanique et d’Aérotechnique [Poitiers] (ISAE-ENSMA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut Pprime [UPR 3346] (PPrime [Poitiers]) ; Université de Poitiers = University of Poitiers (UP)-École Nationale Supérieure de Mécanique et d’Aérotechnique [Poitiers] (ISAE-ENSMA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Poitiers = University of Poitiers (UP)-École Nationale Supérieure de Mécanique et d’Aérotechnique [Poitiers] (ISAE-ENSMA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) | Aristotle University of Thessaloniki | Centre Français des Études Ethiopiennes (CFEE) ; Ministère de l'Europe et des Affaires étrangères (MEAE)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) | ANR-17-CE27-0002,DIET-Scratches,Stratégies alimentaires et leurs changements enregistrés par les dents fossiles: considérer la séquence évolutive des homininés.(2017)
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显示更多 [+] 显示较少 [-]英语. This study aims at improving dietary discrimination among primates through a new analytic approach of dental microwear texture analysis integrating a surface sampling on facets of both phase I and II of mastication. The surface sampling is applied on these two types of molar facets on 104 specimens belonging to four extant cercopithecids, and on 207 Plio-Pleistocene specimens representing four taxa from the Shungura Formation, Ethiopia. The extant species, including Colobus guereza, Theropithecus gelada, Papio hamadryas, Chlorocebus aethiops, compose a model covering a wide range of feeding ecology from leaf-eating through grass-eating habits to opportunistic habits.A principal component analysis built with a selection of the most discriminant variables and extant species as a model displays that the two facets contribute equally to the dispersion of individuals and to the between-species differences. Also, most contributing variables along the components are not central values of texture parameters (mean and median of the parameters measured on subsurfaces or a single value for the whole surface) but rather statistics of their dispersion (percentiles) and distribution (kurtosis, skewness).Once the fossil specimens are inserted into the extant species model, the two large-bodied colobines, Paracolobus and Rhinocolobus, are found to differ from the extant Colobus guereza, one of the most leaf-eating colobines. This highlights ecological diversity among early African colobines. Besides, the analysis tracks between-genus as well as temporal differences between the extinct species of papionins, attesting of a low ecological overlapping between Theropithecus and non-theropith papionins, notably after 2.4 Ma. No significant difference was found between T. brumpti, T. oswaldi, Theropithecus sp. supporting similar feeding habits with the present-day gelada, at least from 2.9 Ma onwards.
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