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Exceptional preservation of a marine tapeworm tentacle in Cretaceous amber

Cihang Luo, Harry W. Palm, Yuhui Zhuang, Edmund A. Jarzembowski, Thet Tin Nyunt, Bo Wang
Journal: Geology
Published: 22 March 2024
Geology (2024) 52 (7): 497–501.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1130/G52071.1
... invaginated tentacle and rootless hooks) features that are most consistent with the tentacles of extant trypanorhynch tapeworms that parasitize marine elasmobranchs (mainly sharks and rays). Our study thus probably provides not only the first partial body fossil of a tapeworm, but also arguably the most...
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Comparison of the internal structure of the fossil (NIGP203253, permanently...

Comparison of the internal structure of the fossil (NIGP203253, permanently...

Published: 22 March 2024
Figure 2. Comparison of the internal structure of the fossil (NIGP203253, permanently deposited in the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, NIGPAS; see text footnote 1 ) with the tentacle of an extant trypanorhynch tapeworm and the proboscis
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The fossil tapeworm tentacle (NIGP203253, permanently deposited in the Nanj...

The fossil tapeworm tentacle (NIGP203253, permanently deposited in the Nanj...

Published: 22 March 2024
trypanorhynch tapeworm. (A) Overall view of the fossil, showing preservation together with sand grains. (B) Micro-computed tomographic reconstruction of the fossil. (C) Scanning electron microscopy image of the tentacle of the extant trypanorhynch tapeworm Myxonybelinia lepturi Palm, 2004 (Trypanorhyncha