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ArticleRoyal Society open science2025

Reconstruction of feeding behaviour and diet in Devonian ctenacanth chondrichthyans using dental microwear texture and finite element analyses.

Merle Greif, Ivan Calandra, Stephan Lautenschlager, Thomas M Kaiser, Mohammed Mezane, Christian Klug

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Article in Royal Society open science, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Merle GreifDepartment of Palaeontology, University of Zurich, Karl-Schmid-Strasse 4, Zurich 8006, Switzerland.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5519-017X
Ivan CalandraImaging Platform at LEIZA (IMPALA), and Laboratory for Traceology and Controlled Experiments (TraCEr), MONREPOS Archaeological Research Centre, Leibniz-Zentrum für Archäologie, Neuwied 56567, Germany.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3816-6359
Stephan LautenschlagerSchool of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Lapworth Museum of Geology, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, UK.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3472-814X
Thomas M KaiserCentre for Taxonomy and Morphology, Section Mammalogy and Paleoanthropology, Leibniz Institute for the Analysis of Biodiversity Change (LIB), Martin-Luther-King-Platz 3, Hamburg 20146, Germany.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8154-1751
Mohammed MezaneMerzouga Errachidia Province, Merzouga BO 520202, Morocco.
Christian KlugDepartment of Palaeontology, University of Zurich, Karl-Schmid-Strasse 4, Zurich 8006, Switzerland.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4099-7453

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Devonian ctenacanth chondrichthyans reached body sizes similar to modern great white sharks and therefore might have been apex predators of the Devonian seas. However, very little is known about the diet and feeding behaviours of these large ancestral sharks. To reconstruct their ecological properties, teeth of the large Famennian (Late Devonian) chondrichthyan

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chondrichthyansDevonianDMTAFEAfeeding behaviourtooth wear

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PMCPMC11774596

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