About Trident
The Trident website invites you to discover:
1) Research projects
Since 2013, and the acquisition of the Leica DCM8 confocal microscope acquired by the PALEVOPRIM laboratory as part of the ANR project TriDent, there have been several projects led by this laboratory. These projects have received funding from the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region and the French National Agency for Research: Trident, Diet-Scratches and ALIHOM.
These projects used an innovative approach combining human and technical skills from several disciplines: agronomy, tribology and paleontology. Their aim was to study the feeding ecology of fossil mammals using extant and experimental data sets.
2) A tool (Trident software under development):
In the course of our various studies, we have developed new analytic tools to facilitate the study of dental wear surfaces.
Trident, a new user-friendly software is available to the scientific community and is downloadable from this website.
3) A 3-fold scientific method:
_ Test hypotheses about the relationship between diet and ecological proxies thanks to experimental datasets (sheep or pigs).
_ Validating models by exploring dental ecological proxies in extant mammal communities.
_ Re-exploring the fossil datasets sets, taking into account experimental results and the study of extant communities.
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