Portal:Paleontology/DYK/46


 * ... that the hypothesis that the pachycephalosaurian dinosaurs used their domed skulls in head-butting competitions was first proposed in a work of science fiction?
 * ... that the extinct Protosialis casca is one of only two known alderflies from the West Indies?
 * ... that the extinct ant species Apterostigma electropilosum was described from a solitary fossil in amber?
 * ... that the extinct species Trochodendron drachuckii is known from a single Eocene fossil found near Cache Creek, British Columbia?
 * ... that Protostephanus was the first extinct wasp genus in the family Stephanidae to be described from a fossil?
 * ... that the extinct ant Acanthostichus hispaniolicus is the only Acanthostichus species found in the West Indies?
 * ... that the Miocene ant Acropyga glaesaria is one of the oldest examples of trophobiosis?
 * ...that the barnacle Megabalanus can reach 7 cm in length?
 * ... that a new family of predatory cockroaches, named Manipulatoridae, has been discovered from amber found in the Hukawng Valley of Myanmar?
 * ... that members of the extinct bivalve genus Hemiconcavodonta are unique in the subfamily Concavodontinae in that their teeth point in two directions?