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SUBMITTER: Barrios-de Pedro S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7599231 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Scientific reports 20201030 1
The exceptional fossil site of Las Hoyas (upper Barremian, Cuenca, Spain) yields abundant small to medium vertebrate coprolites, hindering the search for parasites. We studied the contents of 29 coprolites that were previously classified into distinct morphotypes. Several parasitic eggs were retrieved from two of these coprolites, confirming the second record of digenea trematode eggs and nematode (ascaridid) eggs from an Early Cretaceous locality. The cylindrical coprolite containing anisakid e ...[more]