User:Abyssal/Prehistory of North America/DYK/12


 * ...that an effigy mound in the shape of a turtle is located in the Beattie Park Mound Group in downtown Rockford, Illinois?
 * ... that the fossil mantidfly Dicromantispa moronei was first described from a single specimen in a private collection?
 * ... that Native Americans lived at the Canfield Island Site (pictured) on the West Branch Susquehanna River in Pennsylvania for thousands of years, and now hold an annual pow wow there?
 * ... that the extinct Miocene age maple Acer smileyi has been classified as closely related to the living Acer nipponicum (pictured)?
 * ... that Mound 72 (pictured) at Cahokia in pre-Columbian western Illinois was the site of ritual human sacrifice, including a pit burial containing 53 young women?
 * ... that the Stonerose fossil site contains the earliest known records of Rosaceae, the rose family?
 * ... that the extinct Syndesus ambericus is the only stag beetle known from the Caribbean?
 * ... that Archaeomarasmius, Aureofungus, Coprinites, and Protomycena are the only four genera of agaric mushrooms known from the fossil record?
 * ... that unlike the living golden-club Orontium aquaticum (pictured), the extinct species Orontium mackii may not have needed wetlands to grow?
 * ... that the scorpionfly family Eorpidae has a single genus, Eorpa, described in 2013?