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 * ... that the extinct sweat bee genus Oligochlora contains six species all known from the Dominican amber deposits on Hispaniola?
 * ... that the fossil horse Scaphohippus became extinct when tectonic barriers between the Great Plains and Great Basin of North America disappeared about 13 million years ago?
 * ... that the only male "sweat bee" to have been documented from Dominican amber is the type specimen for the extinct Eickwortapis?
 * ... that unlike living rorqual whales, the late Miocene genus Plesiobalaenoptera was probably not capable of ram feeding?
 * ... that a fossil flower of the extinct palm Roystonea palaea shows damage possibly made by a bat or bird?