User:Abyssal/Prehistory of North America/DYK/11


 * ... that New York's Potsdam Sandstone was deposited in rising seas and consists of sediments eroded from unvegetated terrestrial landscapes?
 * ... that Termitaradus protera was the first termite bug found in amber?
 * ... that both Fordilla and Pojetaia, Cambrian members of the extinct bivalve family Fordillidae, are part of the Turkish small shelly fauna?
 * ... that although Massachusetts is located at the 42nd parallel north, some of its rocks originated near the South Pole?A
 * ... that Ekgmowechashala was the only North American genus of primate during the Late Oligocene?
 * ... that the hypothesis that the pachycephalosaurian dinosaurs used their domed skulls in head-butting competitions was first proposed in a work of science fiction?
 * ...that Terminonatator ponteixensis is the type and only species described for Terminonatator, a genus of elasmosaurid plesiosaur from Late Cretaceous of Saskatchewan, Canada?
 * ... that more than 7,000 years of artifacts have been found at the Ennis Archaeological Site in Indiana?
 * ... that both the Adena and the Hopewell left artifacts at southwestern Ohio's Beam Farm?
 * ... that Tikal Temple IV, a Maya pyramid in Guatemala, was one of the tallest structures in the pre-Columbian New World?