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... that wings of the extinct moth lacewing Allorapisma are most similar to a Cretaceous genus from Brazil?
... that the rauisuchian Tsylmosuchus is known from strata in Russia that are early Olenekian in age, making it one of the earliest archosaurs?
... that
malacologist Myra Keen
was called the "First Lady of Malacology"?

... that the nearest living relatives of tortoise beetle from Colorado
, are found in Africa, tropical Asia, and Australia?

... that when the
extinct forester moth Neurosymploca? oligocenica
was described, a second fossil was known but unavailable for study?

A life restoration of Belemnotheutis

... that the 150-million-year-old ink of the extinct, squid-like Belemnotheutis (artist's rendition pictured) was used to draw a picture that paleontologists called "the ultimate self portrait"?

... that genera of agaric mushrooms
known from the fossil record?

... that although the first two fossils of adapiform
primates?

... that the extinct Volgograd Region
?
... that fossils of Eucommia constans are the youngest and most southerly examples of Eucommia in North America?

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