Tapeworm eggs in a 270 million-year-old shark coprolite.
Remains of parasites in vertebrates are rare from the Mesozoic and Paleozoic. Once most parasites that live in - or pass through - the gastrointestinal tract of vertebrates, fossil feces (coprolites) or even intestinal contents (enterolites) can eventually preserve their remains. Here we announce th...
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2013
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