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From: Discovery of a 240 million year old nematode parasite egg in a cynodont coprolite sheds light on the early origin of pinworms in vertebrates

Figure 3

Paleoxyuris cockburni n. gen., n. sp. A, egg from a coprolite (SEM microscopy); B idem, (light microscopy); Syphaciella madagascariensis Vassiliadès, 1970 egg: C and D detail of the operculum; E, optical cut. Heteroxynema (Cavioxyura) viscaciae Hugot and Sutton, [10] egg: F, optical cut; G, lateral view; H, detail of the operculum. Scale: E, F, G, 100 μm; C, D, H, 50 μm. [C, D and E, after Hugot [11]; F, G and H, after Hugot and Sutton [10]].

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