Publications

Thiery et al., 2024

Hofman-Kamińska et al., 2024

Alifieri et al., 2024

Articles :

2025

Louail, M., Souron, A., Merceron, G., & Boisserie, J. R. (2025). New insights on feeding habits of Kolpochoerus van Hoepen & van Hoepen, 1932 from the Shungura Formation (Lower Omo Valley, Ethiopia) using dental microwear texture analysis. Comptes Rendus Palevol, 24(7), 89-122 – https://doi.org/10.5852/cr-palevol2025v24a7

2024

Thiery, G., Francisco, A., Louail, M., Berlioz, E., Blondel, C., Brunetière, N., … & Merceron, G. (2024). Introducing ‘trident’: a graphical interface for discriminating groups using dental microwear texture analysis. Peer Community Journal, 4 – https://doi.org/10.24072/pcjournal.467
Hofman-Kamińska, E., Merceron, G., Bocherens, H., Boeskorov, G. G., Krotova, O. O., Protopopov, A. V., … & Kowalczyk, R. (2024). Was the steppe bison a grazing beast in Pleistocene landscapes?. Royal Society Open Science, 11(8), 240317 – https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.240317
Alifieri, E., Berlioz, E., Gkeme, A. G., Kostopoulos, D. S., & Merceron, G. (2024). Tooth wear analyses track niche partitioning at Gerakarou, a 1.8 Ma old site from Greece. Quaternary Science Reviews, 334, 108712 – https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2024.108712

2023

Plastiras, C. A., Thiery, G., Guy, F., Alba, D. M., Nishimura, T., Kostopoulos, D. S., & Merceron, G. (2023). Investigating the dietary niches of fossil Plio-Pleistocene European macaques: The case of Macaca majori Azzaroli, 1946 from Sardinia. Journal of Human Evolution, 185, 103454 – https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2023.103454
Dodat, P. J., Martin, J. E., Olive, S., Hassler, A., Albalat, E., Boisserie, J. R., … & Balter, V. (2023). Limits of calcium isotopes diagenesis in fossil bone and enamel. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 351, 45-50 – https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2023.04.012
Merceron, G., Tütken, T., & Scott, R. (2023). Editorial Preface to Special Issue: Understanding dental proxies of ancient diets. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 621, 111589 – https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2023.111589
Hullot, M., Antoine, P. O., Spassov, N., Koufos, G. D., & Merceron, G. (2023). Late Miocene rhinocerotids from the Balkan-Iranian province: ecological insights from dental microwear textures and enamel hypoplasia. Historical Biology, 35(8), 1417-1434 – https://doi.org/10.1080/08912963.2022.2095910
Hullot, M., Merceron, G., & Antoine, P. O. (2023). Spatio-temporal diversity of dietary preferences and stress sensibilities of early and middle Miocene Rhinocerotidae from Eurasia: impact of climate changes. Peer Community Journal, 3 – https://doi.org/10.24072/pcjournal.222

2022

Plastiras, C. A., Thiery, G., Guy, F., Kostopoulos, D. S., Lazzari, V., & Merceron, G. (2022). Feeding ecology of the last European colobine monkey, Dolichopithecus ruscinensis. Journal of Human Evolution, 168, 103199 – https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2022.103199
Isarankura Na Ayudhya, J., Merceron, G., Wannaprasert, T., Jaeger, J. J., Chaimanee, Y., Shoocongdej, R., & Suraprasit, K. (2022). Dental mesowear and microwear for the dietary reconstruction of Quaternary Southeast Asian serows and gorals. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 10, 1000168 – https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2022.1000168
Berlioz, E., Leduc, C., Hofman-Kamińska, E., Bignon-Lau, O., Kowalczyk, R., & Merceron, G. (2022). Dental microwear foraging ecology of a large browsing ruminant in Northern Hemisphere: The European moose (Alces alces). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 586, 110754 – https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2021.110754
Neaux, D., Louail, M., Ferchaud, S., Surault, J., & Merceron, G. (2022). Experimental assessment of the relationship between diet and mandibular morphology using a pig model: New insights for paleodietary reconstructions. The Anatomical Record, 305(11), 3150-3160 – https://doi.org/10.1002/ar.24895
Louail, M., Caner, L., Neaux, D., Ortiz, K., Locatelli, Y., & Cucchi, T. (2023). Identifying the impact of soil Ingestion on dental microwear textures using a wild boar experimental model. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory, 30(3), 855-875 – https://doi.org/10.1007/s10816-022-09574-6
Blondel, C., Merceron, G., Rowan, J., Surault, J., & Boisserie, J. R. (2022). Dietary ecology of Reduncini (Bovidae) from the Shungura Formation, Lower Omo Valley, Ethiopia. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 587, 110789 – https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2021.110789
Plastiras, C. A., Thiery, G., Guy, F., Kostopoulos, D. S., Lazzari, V., & Merceron, G. (2022). Feeding ecology of the last European colobine monkey, Dolichopithecus ruscinensis. Journal of Human Evolution, 168, 103199 – https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2022.103199
Orlandi-Oliveras, G., Köhler, M., Clavel, J., Scott, R., Mayda, S., Kaya, T., & Merceron, G. (2022). Feeding strategies of circum‑Mediterranean hipparionins during the late Miocene: exploring dietary preferences related to size through dental microwear analysis. Palaeontologia Electronica, 25(1), a13 – https://doi.org/10.26879/990
Robinet, C., Merceron, G., Catzeflis, F., Candela, A. M., & Marivaux, L. (2022). About inter-and intra-specific variability of dental microwear texture in rodents: Study of two sympatric Proechimys (Echimyidae) species from the Cacao locality, French Guiana. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 591, 110880 – https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2022.110880
Perales-Gogenola, L., Merceron, G., Badiola, A., Gómez-Olivencia, A., & Pereda-Suberbiola, X. (2022). The evolutionary ecology of the endemic European Eocene plagiolophus (Mammalia: Perissodactyla). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 594, 110962 – https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2022.110962

2021

Thiery, G., Gibert, C., Guy, F., Lazzari, V., Geraads, D., Spassov, N., & Merceron, G. (2021). From leaves to seeds? The dietary shift in late Miocene colobine monkeys of southeastern Europe. Evolution, 75(8), 1983-1997 – https://doi.org/10.1111/evo.14283
Bignon-Lau, O., Catz, N., Bemilli, C., Bodu, P., Hinguant, S., Lacarrière, J., … & Paris, C. (2021). The Last Glacial Maximum and the Late Glacial in northern France-Palaeoecological implications of animal community structuration and feeding behaviours based on dental microwear texture analysis. Bulletin de la Société préhistorique française, 118, 195-219 – https://hal.science/hal-03593075
Louail, M., Ferchaud, S., Souron, A., Walker, A. E., & Merceron, G. (2021). Dental microwear textures differ in pigs with overall similar diets but fed with different seeds. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 572, 110415 – https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2021.110415
Merceron, G., Kallend, A., Francisco, A., Louail, M., Martin, F., Plastiras, C. A., … & Boisserie, J. R. (2021). Further away with dental microwear analysis: Food resource partitioning among Plio-Pleistocene monkeys from the Shungura Formation, Ethiopia. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 572, 110414 – https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2021.110414

2020

Robinet, C., Merceron, G., Candela, A. M., & Marivaux, L. (2020). Dental microwear texture analysis and diet in caviomorphs (Rodentia) from the Serra do Mar Atlantic forest (Brazil). Journal of Mammalogy, 101(2), 386-402 – https://doi.org/10.1093/jmammal/gyz194
Hermier, R., Merceron, G., & Kostopoulos, D. S. (2020). The emblematic Eurasian Villafranchian antelope Gazellospira (Mammalia: Bovidae): new insights from the lower pleistocene Dafnero fossil sites (northern Greece). Geobios, 61, 11-29 – https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geobios.2020.06.006
Francisco, A., Brunetière, N., & Merceron, G. (2020). Damaged digital surfaces also deserve realistic healing. Surface Topography: Metrology and Properties, 8(3), 035008 – https://doi.org/10.1088/2051-672X/aba7a3
Catz, N., Bignon‐Lau, O., & Merceron, G. (2020). Reindeer feeding ecology and hunting strategies by Magdalenians from Pincevent (Paris Basin, France): New insights from dental microwear textural analyses. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, 30(4), 519-528 – https://doi.org/10.1002/oa.2879

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