109 Working Up an Apatite: Teeth as Paleo -Ecological and -Climatological Archives (Posters)

Teeth are used as archives of paleo -ecological, -climatological, and -biological information. This session welcomes presentations using teeth as archives or testing new methods; from morphology, microwear, and histology to geochemical tools.

Monday, 20 October 2025
8:00 AM - 5:30 PM
HBGCC, Hall 1

Participants

• Chair Mason Scher
• Chair Alliya Akhtar

Presentations

• 8:00 AM
  Dental Microwear Texture Analysis of Extinct Pleistocene Caprin From South Africa Challenges Dietary Inferences and Paleoenvironmental Assumptions
  Kathryn Sokolowski, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT and Juniper Koehler, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN and Larisa DeSantis, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN and Deano Stynder, University of Cape Town, Cape Town and Kaedan O'Brien, SUNY Oneonta, Oneonta, NY and Justin Pargeter, New York University, New York, NY and J. Faith, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah
  412115 (Technical Sessions)
• 8:00 AM
  Ca Isotopes in Tooth Enamel: Physiology, Trophic Level and Environmental Reconstruction
  Lauren Gilmore, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ and Stefania Gili, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ and Perrin Hagge, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ and Alliya Akhtar, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ and Kathryn Hoppe, Green River College, Auburn, WA and Elizabeth Niespolo, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ and John Higgins, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
  412493 (Technical Sessions)
• 8:00 AM
  Dental Row Measurements and Horncores Reveal Interspecific and Intraspecific Variation of the Merycodonts (Mammalia: Artiodactyla: Antilocapridae: Merycodontinae) with Implications for Merycodont Systematics
  Kristin Watmore, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA and Donald Prothero, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, La Crescenta, CA
  413892 (Technical Sessions)
• 8:00 AM
  Assessing Intraspecific Variation in Late Paleocene-Early Eocene Ectypodus (Multituberculata) and the Taxonomic Utility of Multituberculate Lower First Molars
  Morgan Williams, Stony Brook Univeristy, Stony Brook, NY and Natasha Vitek, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY and Paul Morse, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus School of Medicine, Aurora, CO and Jonathan Bloch, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
  414349 (Technical Sessions)
• 8:00 AM
  Triple Oxygen and Carbon Isotope Effects of Chemical Pretreatments on Biominerals
  Sarah Katz, Yale University, New Haven, CT and Alex Bertacchi, Yale University, New Haven, CT and Drake Yarian, Yale University, New Haven, CT and Jordan Wostbrock, Yale University, New Haven, CT
  414598 (Technical Sessions)
• 8:00 AM
  Size-Dependent Feeding Behaviors in Archaeotherium, the North American “Hell Pig”
  Brynn Wooten, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN and Larisa DeSantis, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
  414851 (Technical Sessions)