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 * ... that amber fossils of ants carrying the extinct mealybug genus Electromyrmococcus represent the oldest record of symbiosis between mealybugs and Acropyga ants?
 * ... that the extinct fern species Osmunda wehrii was named in honor of Northwest school painter and amateur paleobotanist Wesley C. Wehr?
 * ... that the extinct ant Anochetus brevidentatus was the second Anochetus species described from Dominican amber?
 * ... that the extinct Neocorynura electra, found in Dominican  amber, is the only  known species of Neocorynura "sweat bee" from the Greater  Antilles?
 * ... that although the prehistoric shark Nanocetorhinus is named for the resemblance of its teeth to miniature Cetorhinus teeth, there is no evidence the two genera are closely related?