User:Abyssal/Prehistory of North America/DYK/36
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- ... that the Maya city of La Blanca in northern Guatemala features an unusually well built palace complex for such a small city?
- ... that the extinct maple Acer dettermani is only known from the flank of a volcano?
- ... that the Triassic reptile Vancleavea, which is specialized to live in the water, differs greatly from all other early archosauriforms?
- ... that the extinct legume Hymenaea allendis is the second Hymenaea species described from Mexican amber?
- ... that fossils of the extinct bivalve family Praenuculidae have been found on every continent except Antarctica?
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- ... that the extinct ant Anochetus intermedius had mandibles longer than its head?
- ... that the Late Triassic archosauromorph Uatchitodon is the earliest known venomous reptile?
- ... that the Miocene ant Acropyga glaesaria is one of the oldest examples of trophobiosis?
- ... that the extinct snakefly Agulla protomaculata is the only snakefly described from the Green River Formation?
- ... that with a 20 million year fossil record, Acer chaneyi has the longest fossil record of the Western North American maples?