Photosimulations and three-dimensional surface reconstructions of grey wolf teeth used for dental microwear texture analysis from Late Pleistocene Britain

This dataset consists of 33 PNG image files, one for each grey wolf (Canis lupus) tooth included in the Burtt et al. study "Rapid response: dietary shifts by grey wolves in response to palaeoclimatic variations during the last glaciation". Each PNG file contains two panels: a greyscale photosimulation of the analysed occlusal enamel surface and a colour-rendered three-dimensional (3D) surface reconstruction of the same scanned area. The images document the occlusal wear facets from which dental microwear texture analysis (DMTA) data were collected and are identified by museum specimen catalogue number. These files provide a permanent visual record of the analysed surfaces and complement the archived quantitative DMTA dataset deposited separately.

Date (Creation): 2026-07-13

Citation identifier: http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13608746

Point of contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
University of Bristol	Amanda Burtt	not available	Originator
University of Bristol	Danielle Schreve	not available	Originator
British Geological Survey	Enquiries	not available	Distributor
British Geological Survey	Enquiries	not available	Point of contact

Maintenance and update frequency: notApplicable

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

Geology

BGS Thesaurus of Geosciences

Palaeoenvironment
Glacial period
Climate change

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NERC_DDC

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Language: English

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Geoscientific information

Begin date: 2023-03-23

End date: 2025-10-02

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Distribution format

Name	Version
Microsoft Excel
Image (PNG)

Distributor contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
British Geological Survey	Enquiries	not available	Distributor

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download	https://webapps.bgs.ac.uk/services/ngdc/accessions/index.html#item192696	Data

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
WWW:LINK-1.0-http--related	https://doi.org/10.5285/41b6d17f-f9a7-4f7b-8e00-8389f9d880c5	Citation Information - Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

Hierarchy level: Non geographic dataset

Other: non geographic dataset

Conformance result

Title: INSPIRE Implementing rules laying down technical arrangements for the interoperability and harmonisation of Geology

Date (Publication): 2011

Explanation: See the referenced specification

Pass: No

Conformance result

Title: Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services

Date (Publication): 2010-12-08

Explanation: See http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2010:323:0011:0102:EN:PDF

Pass: No

Statement: Original tooth enamel surfaces were cleaned, moulded using polyvinylsiloxane dental impression material (President The Original: Regular Body, Coltene-Whaledent), and replicated in high-resolution epoxy resin (Epotek 301) following established dental microwear texture analysis (DMTA) protocols. Epoxy casts were scanned using a Sensofar S neox confocal optical profiler to produce three-dimensional surface models of the occlusal wear facets. Surface models were processed in MountainsMap Imaging Topography (Version 10, Digital Surf) to generate the greyscale photosimulations and colour-rendered 3D surface reconstructions contained in this dataset. Full details of specimen preparation, scanning, image processing, and analytical methods are provided in the associated publication.