EU H2020 Project "VERTEBRATE HERBIVORY (Evolution of herbivory in vertebrates: developing combined isotope (Ca, Sr)..)": description, partecipants, costs and EC-fundings

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Coordinator	JOHANNES GUTENBERG-UNIVERSITAT MAINZ Organization address address: SAARSTRASSE 21 city: MAINZ postcode: 55122 website: www.uni-mainz.de contact info title: n.a. name: n.a. surname: n.a. function: n.a. email: n.a. telephone: n.a. fax: n.a.
Coordinator Country	Germany [DE]
Project website	http://www.paleontology.uni-mainz.de/pub_tt.html
Total cost	1˙728˙065 €
EC max contribution	1˙728˙065 € (100%)
Programme	1. H2020-EU.1.1. (EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC))
Code Call	ERC-2015-CoG
Funding Scheme	ERC-COG
Starting year	2016
Duration (year-month-day)	from 2016-09-01 to 2021-08-31

#	participants	country	role	EC contrib. [€]
1	JOHANNES GUTENBERG-UNIVERSITAT MAINZ	DE (MAINZ)	coordinator	1˙728˙065.00

JOHANNES GUTENBERG-UNIVERSITAT MAINZ

DE (MAINZ)

coordinator

1˙728˙065.00

Project objective

Diet is a key factor driving vertebrate evolution. Exploring dietary traits and trophic relationships in fossil food webs is fundamental for understanding radiation and extinction events. This project aims to constrain the evolution of herbivory (plant feeding) and trophic interaction of extinct vertebrates at different spatiotemporal scales by analysing their teeth with isotopic and dental wear techniques. A new approach of combined Ca and stable Sr isotope as well as 3D surface texture (3DST) analysis will be developed and applied to fossil teeth of mammal-ancestors and dinosaurs. Teeth record time-series of diet-related isotope compositions in their enamel while their surface tracks short-term food abrasion. These diet proxies will be calibrated on extant vertebrates with well-known diets from wild animals and controlled feeding experiments simulating diet and trophic level switches. Both Ca isotopes and enamel surface textures have a high preservation potential in fossil teeth and enable micro sampling of enamel for Ca isotope and non-destructive 3DST analysis. For the first time, I will combine Ca isotope and 3DST analysis to reconstruct the diet of extinct key vertebrate taxa and their trophic level in fossil food webs. This multi-proxy approach will provide a versatile toolset to test independently feeding hypotheses that mostly hinge on tooth and skeletal morphology, leading to fundamental new insights into the palaeoecology, dietary flexibility and niche partitioning of fossil vertebrates. The aim is to reconstruct the evolution of herbivory in vertebrates. Here, major objectives are: 1) to infer ontogenetic and evolutionary diet changes by combined Ca isotope and 3DST analysis of fossil teeth, 2) explore stable and radiogenic Sr isotopes as combined proxies for trophic level and habitat use, and 3) pioneer 3DST analysis for reptiles. Beyond the field of palaeontology these dietary proxies will be broadly applicable in archaeology, anthropology and ecology.

Publications

List of publications.
year	authors and title	journal	last update
2019	Michael Tatzel, Jochen Vogl, Martin Rosner, Michael J. Henehan, Thomas TÃ¼tken Triple Isotope Fractionation Exponents of Elements Measured by MC-ICP-MSâ€”An Example of Mg published pages: , ISSN: 0003-2700, DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.9b02699	Analytical Chemistry	2020-01-28
2019	Elehna Bethune, Thomas M. Kaiser, Ellen Schulz-Kornas, Daniela E. Winkler Multiproxy dietary trait reconstruction in Pleistocene Hippopotamidae from the Mediterranean islands published pages: 109210, ISSN: 0031-0182, DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2019.05.032	Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 533	2020-01-28
2019	Guy Sisma-Ventura, Thomas TÃ¼tken, Stefan T. M. Peters, Or M. Bialik, Irit Zohar, Andreas Pack Past aquatic environments in the Levant inferred from stable isotope compositions of carbonate and phosphate in fish teeth published pages: e0220390, ISSN: 1932-6203, DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0220390	PLOS ONE 14/7	2020-01-28
2019	Louise F. Martin, Daniela Winkler, Thomas TÃ¼tken, Daryl Codron, Annelies De Cuyper, Jean-Michel Hatt, Marcus Clauss The way wear goes: phytolith-based wear on the dentineâ€“enamel system in guinea pigs ( Cavia porcellus ) published pages: 20191921, ISSN: 0962-8452, DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2019.1921	Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 286/1912	2020-01-28
2019	Daniela E. Winkler, Ellen Schulz-Kornas, Thomas M. Kaiser, Thomas TÃ¼tken Dental microwear texture reflects dietary tendencies in extant Lepidosauria despite their limited use of oral food processing published pages: 20190544, ISSN: 0962-8452, DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2019.0544	Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 286/1903	2020-01-28
2019	Nicole L. Ackermans, Marcus Clauss, Daniela E. Winkler, Ellen Schulz-Kornas, Thomas M. Kaiser, Dennis W. H. MÃ¼ller, Patrick R. Kircher, JÃ¼rgen Hummel, Jean-Michel Hatt Root growth compensates for molar wear in adult goats ( Capra aegagrus hircus ) published pages: 139-148, ISSN: 2471-5638, DOI: 10.1002/jez.2248	Journal of Experimental Zoology Part A: Ecological and Integrative Physiology 331/2	2020-01-28
2019	Katrin BÃ¶hm, Daniela E. Winkler, Thomas M. Kaiser, Thomas TÃ¼tken Post-mortem alteration of diet-related enamel surface textures through artificial biostratinomy: A tumbling experiment using mammal teeth published pages: 215-231, ISSN: 0031-0182, DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2019.01.008	Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 518	2020-01-28
2019	Daniela E. Winkler, Ellen Schulz-Kornas, Thomas M. Kaiser, Annelies De Cuyper, Marcus Clauss, Thomas TÃ¼tken Forage silica and water content control dental surface texture in guinea pigs and provide implications for dietary reconstruction published pages: 1325-1330, ISSN: 0027-8424, DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1814081116	Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 116/4	2020-01-28
2019	Zhou Z., Winkler D.E., Fortuny J., Kaiser T.M., MarcÃ©-Nogie J. Why ruminants chew sloppy: Biomechanics discern a phylogenetic pattern published pages: , ISSN: 1932-6203, DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0214510	PloS ONE	2020-01-28

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