Dental Microwear textures of extant ruminants from the Bauges Regional Natural Park, France

This dataset contains dental microwear surfaces disto-buccal facets of the lower second molars of extant wild-sampled specimens of roe deer (Capreolus capreolus), red deer (Cervus elaphus), mouflon (Ovis gmelini) and chamois (Rupicapra rupicapra) from the Bauges Regional Natural Park, France. Material is stored at the Palevoprim Lab, University of Poitiers, France. Details are given in Merceron et al. (2021). Merceron, G., Berlioz, E., Vonhof, H., Green, D., Garel, M., Tütken, T., 2021a. Tooth tales told by dental diet proxies: An alpine community of sympatric ruminants as a model to decipher the ecology of fossil fauna. Palaeogeogr. Palaeoclimatol. Palaeoecol. 562, 110077. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2020.110077