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

Paula C. Dentzien-Dias; George Poinar Jr; Ana Emilia Q. de Figueiredo; Ana Carolina L. Pacheco; Bruno L. D. Horn; Cesar L. Schultz

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0055007

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

Paula C. Dentzien-Dias ,

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Affiliation Laboratório de Paleontologia e Paleoceanografia, Instituto de Oceanografia, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande, Rio Grande, Brazil
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George Poinar Jr,

Affiliation Department of Zoology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, United States of America
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Ana Emilia Q. de Figueiredo,

Affiliation Instituto de Geociências, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Departamento de Paleontologia e Estratigrafia. Porto Alegre, Brazil
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Ana Carolina L. Pacheco,

Affiliation Universidade Federal do Piauí, Campus Senador Helvídio Nunes de Barros, Picos, Piauí. Brazil
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Bruno L. D. Horn,

Affiliation Instituto de Geociências, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Departamento de Paleontologia e Estratigrafia. Porto Alegre, Brazil
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Cesar L. Schultz

Affiliation Instituto de Geociências, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Departamento de Paleontologia e Estratigrafia. Porto Alegre, Brazil
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Tapeworm Eggs in a 270 Million-Year-Old Shark Coprolite

Paula C. Dentzien-Dias,
George Poinar Jr,
Ana Emilia Q. de Figueiredo,
Ana Carolina L. Pacheco,
Bruno L. D. Horn,
Cesar L. Schultz

Published: January 30, 2013
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0055007

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