Evolutionary History of Terrestrial Pathogens and Endoparasites as Revealed in Fossils and Subfossils

<table>Parasitism of an Early Cretaceous Lebanese amber chironomid midge by the mermithid nematode,<i> Cretacimermis libani.</i> The nematode is coiled in the abdomen of its host.</table>

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Figure 69: Evolutionary History of Terrestrial Pathogens and Endoparasites as Revealed in Fossils and Subfossils 