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 * ... that the fossil horse Scaphohippus became extinct when tectonic barriers between the Great Plains and Great Basin of North America disappeared about 13 million years ago?
 * ... that the extinct Phlebotominae sandfly Pintomyia falcaorum is known only from Miocene age Dominican amber found on Hispaniola?
 * ... that oviraptorosaurs were thought to be egg-eaters after the discovery of Oviraptor on a nest of presumed Protoceratops eggs, until the nest was recognized as belonging to Oviraptor itself?
 * ... that the Paleozoic monoplacophoran Pilina unguis was twice as large as any known living monoplacophoran?
 * ... that coal balls are not made of coal?
 * ... that Aquilops ("eagle face") is the most ancient definite neoceratopsian discovered in North America?
 * ... that the recently described genus Koilamasuchus from the Early Triassic of Argentina is the best-known early archosauriform in South America?
 * ... that fossils of Yelovichnus were initially believed to be the feeding trails of other organisms?
 * ... that, together with Platychelys, Pleurosternon is one of the few fossil genera with characteristics of both modern turtle suborders?
 * ... that the extinct ant Anochetus brevidentatus was the second Anochetus species described from Dominican amber?