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 * ... that Lepidotus was a genus of prehistoric fish that existed from the Late Triassic (Rhaetic) to the middle Cretaceous (Cenomanian)?
 * ... that highlights from the history of troodontid research include the discovery that troodontids (example pictured) were among the brainiest dinosaurs?
 * ... that the extinct horsetail Equisetum thermale grew in Jurassic hot springs?
 * ... that the extinct spider Eoplectreurys is the oldest described genus of Haplogynae, predating spiders from Cretaceous amber in Jordan and Lebanon?
 * ... that the plesiosaur Bathyspondylus was first described in 1982 from a specimen collected in 1774?