Measuring the load-bearing capacity of Mesozoic marine reptile teeth using Finite Element Analysis

No abstract is available for this paper.

• Publication year

  2025

• Venue

  Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology

• Publication date

  2025-03-04

• Fields of study

  Not labeled

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1080/02724634.2025.2530718
• External record

  Open on Semantic Scholar

• Source metadata

  Semantic Scholar

• No claims are published for this paper.

• No concepts are published for this paper.

• The impact of apicobasal ridges on dental load-bearing capacity in aquatic-feeding predatory amniotes

  2024cited by this paper
• Is a blunt sword pointless? Tooth wear impacts puncture performance in Tasmanian devil canines

  2023cited by this paper
• Investigating gut contents of the leptocleidian plesiosaur Umoonasaurus demoscyllus using micro-CT imaging

  2023cited by this paper
• ‘Fossils’: A new, fast and open‐source protocol to simulate muscle‐driven biomechanical loading of bone

  2023cited by this paper
• Taking a stab at modelling canine tooth biomechanics in mammalian carnivores with beam theory and finite-element analysis

  2022cited by this paper
• Convergence and constraint in the cranial evolution of mosasaurid reptiles and early cetaceans

  2022cited by this paper
• Ecological signal in the size and shape of marine amniote teeth

  2022influential reference
• First three-dimensional skull of the Middle Triassic mixosaurid ichthyosaur Phalarodon fraasi from Svalbard, Norway

  2022cited by this paper
• Stress patterns in conical teeth of reptiles and mammals: experimental and finite element analyses

  2022cited by this paper
• Dental form and function in the early feeding diversification of dinosaurs

  2022cited by this paper
• Dentition and feeding in Placodontia: tooth replacement in Henodus chelyops

  2021cited by this paper
• Biomechanical insights into the dentition of megatooth sharks (Lamniformes: Otodontidae)

  2021cited by this paper
• The killer’s toolkit: remarkable adaptations in the canine teeth of mammalian carnivores

  2021cited by this paper
• Fang evolution in venomous snakes: Adaptation of 3D tooth shape to the biomechanical properties of their prey

  2021influential reference
• Modeling tooth enamel in FEA comparisons of skulls: Comparing common simplifications with biologically realistic models

  2021influential reference
• Evidence Supporting Predation of 4-m Marine Reptile by Triassic Megapredator

  2020cited by this paper
• The repeated evolution of dental apicobasal ridges in aquatic-feeding mammals and reptiles

  2019influential reference
• Puncture-and-Pull Biomechanics in the Teeth of Predatory Coelurosaurian Dinosaurs.

  2018cited by this paper
• Increased pliosaurid dental disparity across the Jurassic–Cretaceous transition

  2018cited by this paper
• The long-term ecology and evolution of marine reptiles in a Jurassic seaway

  2018cited by this paper
• Convergence on dental simplification in the evolution of whales

  2018cited by this paper
• Hyper-longirostry and kinematic disparity in extinct toothed whales

  2018cited by this paper
• Skull shape reflects prey size niche in toothed whales

  2017influential reference
• A behavioural framework for the evolution of feeding in predatory aquatic mammals

  2017cited by this paper
• The biomechanical consequences of longirostry in crocodilians and odontocetes.

  2017influential reference
• Accounting for differences in element size and homogeneity when comparing Finite Element models: Armadillos as a case study

  2016cited by this paper
• Rhinoceros

  2016cited by this paper
• Coprolites of marine vertebrate predators from the Lower Triassic of southern Poland

  2015cited by this paper
• Functional anatomy and feeding biomechanics of a giant Upper Jurassic pliosaur (Reptilia: Sauropterygia) from Weymouth Bay, Dorset, UK

  2014cited by this paper
• Dental macro- and microwear in Carinodens belgicus, a small mosasaur from the type Maastrichtian

  2013cited by this paper
• On diving and diet: resource partitioning in type-Maastrichtian mosasaurs∙

  2013cited by this paper
• Tooth histology, attachment, and replacement in the Ichthyopterygia reviewed in an evolutionary context

  2012cited by this paper
• Free body analysis, beam mechanics, and finite element modeling of the mandible of Alligator mississippiensis

  2011cited by this paper
• Biology meets engineering: The structural mechanics of fossil and extant shark teeth

  2011cited by this paper
• Requirements for comparing the performance of finite element models of biological structures.

  2009cited by this paper
• Devourer of Gods: the palaeoecology of the Cretaceous pliosaur Kronosaurus queenslandicus

  2009cited by this paper
• Stomach contents of Globidens, a shell-crushing mosasaur (Squamata), from the Late Cretaceous Pierre Shale Group, Big Bend area of the Missouri River, central South Dakota

  2007cited by this paper
• Supermodeled sabercat, predatory behavior in Smilodon fatalis revealed by high-resolution 3D computer simulation

  2007cited by this paper
• A new species of the durophagous mosasaur Globidens (Squamata: Mosasauridae) from the Late Cretaceous Pierre Shale Group of central South Dakota, USA

  2007cited by this paper
• An archaic crested plesiosaur in opal from the Lower Cretaceous high-latitude deposits of Australia

  2006cited by this paper
• Spatial and functional modeling of carnivore and insectivore molariform teeth

  2006influential reference
• First gut contents in a Cretaceous sea turtle

  2006cited by this paper
• Finite-element analysis of biting behavior and bone stress in the facial skeletons of bats.

  2005influential reference
• Durophagous Mosasauridae (Squamata) from the Upper Cretaceous phosphates of Morocco, with description of a new species of Globidens

  2005cited by this paper
• Wear facets and enamel spalling in tyrannosaurid dinosaurs

  2005cited by this paper
• Feeding the Mechanical Mosasaur: what did Carinodens eat?

  2005cited by this paper
• Correspondence between tooth shape and dietary biomechanical properties in insectivorous microchiropterans

  2005cited by this paper
• Undermining of enamel as a mechanism of abfraction lesion formation: a finite element study.

  2004influential reference
• Phylogenetic Character Analysis of Crocodylian Enamel Microstructure and its Relevance to Biomechanical Performance

  2004influential reference
• Unusual gut contents in a Cretaceous ichthyosaur

  2003cited by this paper
• The tooth of perfection: functional and spatial constraints on mammalian tooth shape

  2003cited by this paper
• Mechanistic fracture criteria for the failure of human cortical bone

  2003cited by this paper
• An Elasmosaur with Stomach Contents and Gastroliths from the Pierre Shale (Late Cretaceous) of Kansas

  2001cited by this paper
• Cranial design and function in a large theropod dinosaur

  2001cited by this paper
• Dental caries in an Early Cretaceous ichthyosaur

  2001cited by this paper
• The effect of tooth shape on the breakdown of insects

  1998influential reference
• Cranial Anatomy and Functional Morphology of Pliosaurus brachyspondylus (Reptilia: Plesiosauria) from the Upper Jurassic of Westbury, Wiltshire

  1993cited by this paper
• How tetrapods feed in water: a functional analysis by paradigm

  1987cited by this paper
• Tooth morphology and prey preference of Mesozoic marine reptiles

  1987influential reference
• Elastic properties of bovine dentine and enamel.

  1970cited by this paper
• Distributed under Creative Commons Cc-by 4.0 the Sensitivity of Biological Finite Element Models to the Resolution of Surface Geometry: a Case Study of Crocodilian Crania

  year unknowncited by this paper

• Redescription of Prognathodon waiparaensis and comments on its phylogenetic position

  2026cites this paper