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Quarter of a million host-parasite records, detailing helminth parasites their associated host species and locality, extracted from 28,000 references. In 1922 Dr H.A. Baylis, then head of what today ...

Late Eocene to Recent; very widespread in tropical to temperate regions. One of the commonest fossil echinoids in the Tertiary. Many nominal species have been described, but only two others have the ...

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This is one of the best known of all Cretaceous echinoids and has formed the basis for classic microevolutionary studies. Stokes (1975), Ernst (1970, 1972), Maczynska (1968) and Fouray (1981) deal in ...