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 * ... that the name Ginkgo dissecta was first coined in 1974 but not formalized until 2002?
 * ... that Appianoporites, Margaretbarromyces, and Quatsinoporites are all fossil fungi from Vancouver Island, British Columbia?
 * ... that Kairuku grebneffi, an extinct species of penguin, was nearly 1.5 m long and weighed 50% more than modern Emperor Penguins?
 * ... that when the extinct forester moth Neurosymploca? oligocenica was described, a second fossil was known but unavailable for study?
 * ...that though no fossil grasses have been discovered, the earliest-known grassland ecosystem, the 30+ million-year-old Tinguiririca fauna of Chile, can be detected through the grazers' teeth?