Dental Microwear textures of extant specimens of Pongo from the Selenka collections

This dataset contains dental microwear surfaces on both crushing and shearing molar facets of 95 extant wild-sampled specimens of two species of Pongo: • Pongo pygmeaus from Borneo • Pongo abelli from Sumatra All specimens are housed in the Zoologische Staatssammlung München, Germany (SNSB-ZSM) Here are provided three different files for each specimen: • Plu files: these files are the raw data extracted from the Leica DCM8 “Trident” stored at the PALEVOPRIM lab • Mnt files: these files include all pre-treatments ran on the Plu files. We batch-applied with a template on the Plu files. In a few cases, we adjusted the settings manually. All changes were saved in the mnt. • Sur files: these files are the final studiables issued the mnt files. This is the data on which we can extract texture parameters. One template is provided: • Zinv200x200: this template is applied on the plu files obtained from dental molds, meaning the plu reproduces an inversed relief of the dental texture. A Z inverse operator is included in the template. • A PDF version of the template (Zinv200x200) is proposed so one could generate the very same procedures using open free software. Each facet was scanned using “TRIDENT”, a Leica DCM8 (Leica Microsystem) white light confocal profilometer housed at the PALEVOPRIM lab (CNRS and University of Poitiers; numerical aperture: 0.90; working distance: 0.9 mm; Leica Microsystems). Scanned surfaces were pre-treated under LeicaMap v. 8.0 (Leica Microsystems, Mountain technology; see Merceron et al., 2016 including SI for more details). A 200 × 200 μm (1551 × 1551 pixels) leveled area was automatically generated from each surface and used for Dental Microwear Texture Analysis.