Description and significance of a fossil earthworm (Oligochaeta: Lumbricidae) cocoon from postglacial sediments in southern Ontario
- 1 July 1979
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Canadian Science Publishing in Canadian Journal of Zoology
- Vol. 57 (7), 1402-1405
- https://doi.org/10.1139/z79-181
Abstract
A nearly complete cocoon of the lumbricid Dendrodrilus rubidus (Savigny, 1826) was isolated from lacustrine sediments of > 10 000 years in age in southern Ontario. The cocoon provides the first fossil evidence for the presence of earthworms in Canada preceding the arrival of European settlers.This publication has 1 reference indexed in Scilit:
- Burmese Earthworms: An Introduction to the Systematics and Biology of Megadrile Oligochaetes with Special Reference to Southeast AsiaTransactions of the American Philosophical Society, 1972