Vertebrate dental ecomorphology: Tooth traits that reflect ecology

Conveners: Jonathan S. Keller & David L.

Tooth shape is one of the main tools available to infer ecology in fossil vertebrates and is thus of broad interest to paleontologists. While ecological interpretations of dental morphology have deep roots in mammalian paleoecology, the approach has transformed to a much more quantitative discipline in the last two decades and recent work has begun to reveal new ecological and functional insights into modern and fossil reptiles and non-mammalian synapsids