3D scan dataset associated with the publication "Microwear textures associated with experimental near-natural diets suggest that seeds and hard insect body-parts cause high enamel surface complexity in small mammals"

Principal Investigator Contact Information

Name: Daniela E. Winkler                           

Institution: The University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, Department of

       Natural Environmental Studies

Address: Kashiwanoha 5-1-5, Chiba 277-8563, Kashiwa City, Japan

Email: daniela.eileen.winkler@k.u-tokyo.ac.jp

This digital folder contains the dataset (252 scans in total) of the publication “Microwear textures associated with experimental near-natural diets suggest that seeds and hard insect body-parts cause high enamel surface complexity in small mammals” by Winkler, D.E., Clauss, M., Kubo, M.O., Schulz-Kornas, E., Kaiser, T.M., Tschudin, A., De Cuyper, A., Kubo, T., Tütken, T.

The 3D scan data used in this study are collected from the original tooth enamel surfaces from upper first and second molar of rats that received dedicated diets during a feeding experiment conducted under the framework of the ERC project “Vertebrate Herbivory” (Consolidator Grant Agreement 681450 to Thomas Tütken).

Surface scans of the enamel bands were conducted by a µsurf Custom (NanoFocus AG, Oberhausen, Germany) confocal disc-scanning microscope, equipped with a blue LED (470 nm) and high-speed progressive-scan digital camera (984 x 984 pixel), a 100x long working-distance objective (resolution in x, y = 0.16 µm, step size in z = 0.06 µm), and cut to 60x60 [endif]-->m using MountainsMap v. 8.2 (Digital Surf, Besançon, France). It is recommended to use MountainsMap v.8.0 or higher for data inspection and further processing.