Portal:Paleontology/DYK/48


 * ... that the Jurassic conifer Araucaria mirabilis (cone pictured) of Argentina may have been a primary food for sauropods?
 * ... that a fossil flower of the extinct palm Roystonea palaea shows damage possibly made by a bat or bird?
 * ... that highlights from the history of ankylosaur research include one of the first dinosaurs ever discovered and a dinosaur with armored eyelids?
 * ...that American lions were probably cave lions who crossed the Bering land bridge into Alaska?
 * ... that Kendallina, a genus of trilobite, lived in North America during the Upper Cambrian?
 * ... that the recently described synapsid Raranimus (pictured) is the most basal member of the order Therapsida, from which mammals are a descendant taxon?
 * ... that the extinct sweat bee Halictus? savenyei was the first fossil bee from Canada to be described?
 * ... that fossil specimens of the extinct scorpionfly family Dinopanorpidae, which includes Dinopanorpa and Dinokanaga, sometimes have preserved dark with light to clear color patterning?
 * ... that the extinct snakefly genus Proraphidia is known from fossils found in Spain, England, and Kazakhstan?
 * ... that remains of the recently described saber-toothed anomodont Tiarajudens were uncovered from a location in Brazil that was first found using Google Earth?