User:Abyssal/Prehistory of North America/DYK/46


 * ... that Paul S. Martin and Paul Sidney Martin both worked as anthropologists at the University of Arizona in the early 1970s?
 * ... that fossils of Eucommia constans are the youngest and most southerly examples of Eucommia in North America?
 * ... that the Eocene maple Acer clarnoense is not found in the Clarno Formation even though the species was named after it?
 * ...that the mounds of Indian Mound Park on Dauphin Island, Alabama are composed of oyster shells discarded over centuries by migrant Indians?
 * ... that the early Eocene maple species Acer douglasense is the second-oldest maple known from Alaska?
 * ... that Xochipala-style figurines (pictured) are considered some of the earliest and most naturalistic in Mesoamerica?
 * ... that archeologist Anna Curtenius Roosevelt, the great-granddaughter of Theodore Roosevelt, described a pre-Columbian civilization in Brazil as having "outstanding indigenous cultural achievements"?
 * ... that Urocyon progressus, a species of extinct fox, was formally described after two bones and a tooth were found?
 * ... that the extinct Pliocene pine Pinus matthewsii is thought to have been a colonizing tree?
 * ... that the extinct fly Schwenckfeldina archoica has spines on its genitalia?