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 * ... that the Cretaceous ant Haidomyrmodes mammuthus is named for the similarity between its mandible shape and mammoth tusks?
 * ... that the fossil scorpion fly Holcorpa was described in 1878 but the family Holcorpidae not until 1989?
 * ... that the possibly extinct wall crab spider species Garcorops jadis was named for C.S. Lewis' Jadis, the White Witch?
 * ... that the oldest known member of the mayfly family Neoephemeridae is the Eocene species Neoephemera antiqua?
 * ... that Entropezites, Mycetophagites, and Palaeoagaracites present the oldest evidence of fungal parasitism and hyperparasitism by other fungi in the fossil record?
 * ... that although the first Callawayasaurus fossil was discovered in 1962, it was not until 1999 that they were recognized as a separate genus?
 * ... that Nanoraphidia electroburmica, known from a fossil in amber, is the smallest known snakefly species, living or extinct?
 * ... that it may not be possible to determine what ?Oryzomys pliocaenicus is?
 * ... that the paleobotanists David P. Penhallow and Chester A. Arnold both published studies on the extinct water-fern Azolla primaeva?
 * ... that the name Ginkgo dissecta was first coined in 1974 but not formalized until 2002?