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.
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