Helminth eggs in animal coprolites from a Middle Pleistocene site in Europe.
This paper reports on the discovery of dicrocoelid eggs in a coprolite collected in an archeological layer dated earlier than 550,000 yr BP (before present) from the Caune de l'Arago cave (Tautavel, Pyrénées-Orientales, France). It is the first trematode egg finding in an isolated coprolite from the Middle Pleistocene context.
Jouy-Avantin
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Laboratoire de Biologie Animale, UMR no. 5555 du CNRS, Centre de Biologie et d'Ecologie Tropicale et Méditerranéenne, Perpignan, France.
Combes
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Lumley
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Miskovsky
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Moné
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D000818:Animals; D005060:Europe; D005243:Feces / Q000469:parasitology*; D010063:Ovum / Q000166:cytology; D010163:Paleontology; D014200:Trematoda / Q000302:isolation & purification*