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 * ... that unlike modern Sassafras, which are deciduous, the extinct species Sassafras hesperia (fossil pictured) may have been evergreen?
 * ... that Acer castorrivularis is one of five extinct maples from the Eocene Beaver Creek flora in Montana?
 * ... that the extinct Itilochelys is one of only three known fossil cheloniid sea turtle taxa found in the Volgograd Region?
 * ... that the extinct arum family plants Petrocardium and Montrichardia aquatica are known only from the Paleocene Cerrejón Formation rainforest in Colombia?
 * ... that the extinct maple Acer ivanofense is known from four Alaskan fossils?