Incisor cross-sectional area at the cementoenamel junction correlates with an increased reliance on frugivory in anthropoid primates.

ABSTRACT: Diet is one of a limited set of key ecological parameters defining primate species. A detailed understanding of dental functional correlates with primate diet is a key component for accurate dietary inference in fossil primates. Although considerable effort has been devoted to understanding post-canine dental function, incisor function remains poorly understood. Prior analyses have demonstrated that anthropoid incisor mesiodistal (MD) and cervico-incisal (CI) crown curvature correlates with an increased reliance on frugivory and that greater incisor crown curvature functions to increase total crown area and, by extension, crown resistance to normal bending stresses (e.g., compressive and tensile forces). The present study investigates the correlation between incisor basal cross-sectional a

SUBMITTER: Deane A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12329396 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature