Portal:Paleontology/DYK/11

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A life restoration of Palaeochiropteryx

... that the many examples of
Messel lake may have drowned after being rendered unconscious in flight by poisonous volcanic gases
?

... that fossils of the temnospondyl amphibian Kourerpeton were notoriously discovered in the window of a barber's shop in Arizona?
... that the extinct
Agulla protomaculata is the only snakefly described from the Green River Formation
?

... that the extinct
Florissant Formation in Colorado
?

" or the "candy cane", due to its shape?

A fossil life restoration of

... that members of the extinct
mother of pearl
?
... that the
arum family plants Petrocardium and Montrichardia aquatica are known only from the Paleocene Cerrejón Formation rainforest in Colombia
?

... that the
microsaur Rhynchonkos (pictured) shares many similarities with Eocaecilia, and may be an ancestor of caecilians
?

...that Fossil Cycad National Monument, established in South Dakota in 1922, was withdrawn as a national monument in 1956 because all of the visible fossils had been stolen?
... that before modern paleontology came about, fossils of Encrinus went by a number of names in Germany, including "sun wheels", "Saint Boniface's pennies", and "witches' money"?

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