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Larisa R. G. DeSantis

Vanderbilt University

2301 Vanderbilt Place

Nashville, TN 37240

United States

SCHOLARLY PAPERS

3

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Scholarly Papers (3)

1.

Size-driven dietary partitioning in Archaeotherium (the North American “Hell Pig”) revealed through dental microwear texture analysis

Number of pages: 31 Posted: 12 Feb 2026
Brynn Wooten and Larisa R. G. DeSantis
Vanderbilt University and Vanderbilt University
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Archaeotherium, diet, DMTA, entelodont, Oligocene, paleoecology

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Dietary Change Across the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum in the Mesonychid Dissacus Praenuntius

Number of pages: 42 Posted: 30 Apr 2025
Andrew Schwartz, Larisa R. G. DeSantis and Rob S. Scott
affiliation not provided to SSRN, Vanderbilt University and affiliation not provided to SSRN
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Dissacus, Mesonychidae, PETM, Dental microwear, Dietary ecology, climate change

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One species, many signals: interpreting dental microwear textures and mesowear in mixed-feeding springbok (Antidorcas marsupialis) across biomes

Number of pages: 41 Posted: 12 Feb 2026
Vanderbilt University, University of Cape Town, University of Utah, Vanderbilt University, George Washington University - Center for the Advanced Study of Human Paleobiology, SUNY Oneonta and Vanderbilt University
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bovid, dental mesowear, dental microwear, dietary ecology, environmental reconstruction, intraspecific variation