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About Trident
Who’s who ?
Sheep
Modern
Fossil
Why and How ?
Publications
Data
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“Tracking the diet of a given (fossil or modern) species is a challenge critical for reconstructing its ecology. Among taxon-free tools, one of the most innovative used in paleontology is dental microwear texture analysis. The TRIDENT project headed by Gildas MERCERON at the iPHEP lab (CNRS and University of Poitiers) is fully dedicated to develop and improve the latter approach by combining controlled food trials on sheep with validation and exploration on present-day mammalian communities before application on extinct assemblages.”

TRIDENT Contact : gildas.merceron@univ-poitiers.fr Last update: February 27th 2020