Parasites in micromammal fecal pellets throughout the Late Holocene (“Cueva Peligro” paleontological site, Patagonia, Argentina)

Paleoparasitological Contributions to the Study on Ancient Infections of Hominids and Other Vertebrates in Brazil: A Review

“…Although the first paleoparasitological studies were focused on the description of infections in ancient humans (Ruffer, 1910;Szidat, 1944), efforts to identify helminths and protozoans in other vertebrate remains throughout the Phanerozoic eon have been noted in the literature. Reports of parasites in fossils and subfossils are uneven, and records from the Cenozoic are by far the most numerous (Araújo et al, 1981;Ferreira et al, 1989bFerreira et al, , 1991Ferreira et al, , 1992Ferreira et al, , 1993Schmidt et al, 1992;Noronha et al, 1994;Jouy-Avantin et al, 1999;Verde & Ubilla, 2002;Sardella & Fugassa, 2009;Beltrame et al, 2011Beltrame et al, , 2012Beltrame et al, , 2013Beltrame et al, , 2015aBeltrame et al, , b, 2017Beltrame et al, , 2018Beltrame et al, , 2022Fugassa et al, 2013Fugassa et al, , 2022McConnell & Zavada, 2013;Wood et al, 2013Wood et al, , 2019Taglioretti et al, 2015;Sianto et al, 2016;Nunes et al, 2017;Perri et al, 2017;Dentzien-Dias et al, 2018;Leles et al, 2018;Tietze et al, 2019Tietze et al, , 2020Souza et al, 2020;Agustín et al, 2021;Cardia et al, 2021;Oyarzún-Ruiz et al, 2021;Petrigh et al, 2021;Sivkova & Kosintsev, 2021;…”