User:Abyssal/Prehistory of North America/DYK/44


 * ... that at the time of the Spanish Conquest, the Kaqchikel Maya city of Iximche (pictured) was the second most important city in the Guatemalan Highlands?
 * ... that the extinct ant Anochetus corayi was the first Anochetus species described from a fossil?
 * ...that natural gas in the Marcellus Formation could increase United States energy reserves by one trillion U.S. dollars?
 * ... that out of the described snakefly specimens from the Florissant Formation, the Raphidia  funerata  holotype  is the most complete?
 * ... that the Mayan archaeological site Baking Pot covered a 9 sqkm area?
 * ... that the Mam Maya capital city of Zaculeu (fragment pictured) fell to Spanish conquistador Gonzalo de Alvarado y Chávez after a siege that lasted several months?
 * ... that the first Bayfield group quarry opened in 1868 on Basswood Island?
 * ... that Deltaterrasserne, containing features of both Independence I and Independence II cultures, is one of the largest archaeological sites in Peary Land?
 * ...that the type specimen of Dromicosuchus had damage to its jaw and neck that may have been inflicted by the teeth of the large carnivore it was found underneath?
 * ... that the extinct, Miocene age, maple Acer browni ranged from southern Oregon to the north shore of the Haida Gwaii?