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 * ...that the Burgsvik beds, a geological formation exposed on Gotland, Sweden, contain the only fossil euglenid ever discovered?
 * ...that the extinct species of Edaphodon, a type of rabbitfish related to the shark, grazed along the bottom of the ocean like land-dwelling herbivores do now?
 * ... that the Paleocene Alaskan maple Acer alaskense was described from a fossil leaf that may be atypical for the species?
 * ... that Termitaradus protera was the first termite bug found in amber?
 * ... that Hyptia deansi is the only fossil ensign wasp described from Mexican amber?
 * ... that the largest known ovules produced by any non-flowering seed-plant came from the Medullosales (fossilized leaves pictured), an order of extinct seed ferns?
 * ... that the Late Cretaceous crocodile relative Simosuchus (restoration pictured) ate plants and had a pug-nosed snout?
 * ...that though no fossil grasses have been discovered, the earliest-known grassland ecosystem, the 30+ million-year-old Tinguiririca fauna of Chile, can be detected through the grazers' teeth?
 * ... that the extinct hangingfly genera Formosibittacus, Jurahylobittacus, and Mongolbittacus are only known from the Middle Jurassic of China?
 * ... that the extinct legume Hymenaea allendis is the second Hymenaea species described from Mexican amber?