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 * ... that unlike other stereospondyl amphibians, the Triassic Lydekkerina (restoration pictured) lived entirely on land?
 * ... that the extinct Miocene redwood, Sequoiadendron chaneyi, is the probable ancestor to the giant sequoias in California?
 * ...that Terminonatator ponteixensis is the type and only species described for Terminonatator, a genus of elasmosaurid plesiosaur from Late Cretaceous of Saskatchewan, Canada?
 * ... that the extinct winter-hazel species Corylopsis readae was described from a single Ypresian fossil?
 * ... that the Triassic reptile Vancleavea, which is specialized to live in the water, differs greatly from all other early archosauriforms?