Tapeworm Eggs in a 270 Million-Year-Old Shark Coprolite

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Dentzien Dias, Paula C ^a   Poinar, George ^b   de Figueiredo, Ana Emilia Q ^c   Pacheco, Ana Carolina L ^d   Horn, Bruno L D ^c   Schultz, Cesar L ^c  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE   (Brazil)

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

^d FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PIAUÍ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FERRIC OXIDE; PYRITE;

ARTICLE; CESTODE; CESTODIASIS; COPROLITE; FECES ANALYSIS; FOSSIL; FOSSIL ANIMAL; LARVA; LOPINGIAN; NONHUMAN; PARASITISM; SHARK; WORM EGG;

EID: 84873817866     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0055007     Document Type: Article

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