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 * ... that the Late Eocene marine Hoko River Formation is noted for producing crab, gastropod, cephalopod, and wood fossils?
 * ... that the extinct sweat bee Halictus? savenyei was the first fossil bee from Canada to be described?
 * ... that the fossil ant Azteca eumeces is one of two Azteca species found in Dominican amber?
 * ... that species in the fossil ant genus Myrmeciites are named for Hercules, Goliath, and a river?
 * ... that the type specimen of the extinct nutmeg yew Torreya clarnensis is located in Florida?
 * ... that the Miocene maple Acer traini may be the same species as the living Douglas Maple (fruits pictured)?
 * ... that unusual archosauromorph reptile Teraterpeton from the Late Triassic of Nova Scotia had nostril openings in its skull that were longer than its eye sockets?
 * ...that geologist T.H. Clark retired from McGill University in Quebec, Canada, at the age of 100, after teaching for 69 years?
 * ... that 94% of Dartmoor kistvaens (pictured) have the longer axis of the tomb oriented NW/SE, apparently so that the deceased face the sun?
 * ...that the largest sea turtles ever to have swum the oceans belonged to the family Protostegidae?