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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 Eosacantha, a fossil 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?
 * ... 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 Archaeomarasmius, Aureofungus, Coprinites, and Protomycena are the only four genera of agaric mushrooms known from the fossil record?
 * ... that although the first two fossils of Indraloris to be found were misidentified as a carnivoran and a loris, it is in fact a member of the extinct adapiform primates?
 * ... that the extinct Itilochelys is one of only three known fossil cheloniid sea turtle taxa found in the Volgograd Region?
 * ... that fossils of Eucommia constans are the youngest and most southerly examples of Eucommia in North America?