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 * ...that eighty years on, scientists are still debating whether the Palæozoic fossils known as Chitinozoans (SEM image pictured) represent plants, animals or eggs?
 * ... that in 1968 American archaeologist A. Ledyard  Smith received the Order of the Quetzal  from the Guatemalan  government for his services to the cultural heritage of the country?
 * ... that the extinct, Triassic, bivalve family Cassianellidae may have evolved from the family Bakevelliidae, which survived longer into the Eocene?
 * ... that one species of the extinct Eocene bulldog ant Ypresiomyrma reached up to 25 mm in length?
 * ... that Bruce Erickson, an American paleontologist, has a collection of about a million specimens of ancient fossils?
 * ... that the ancient Maya architectural complex of Tazumal, in El Salvador, contained some of the earliest known metal artefacts from Mesoamerica?
 * ... that the newly named extinct prawn Aciculopoda is the third unambiguous fossil decapod from before the Mesozoic?
 * ... that at the time of description, the extinct Tilia johnsoni (pictured) was the oldest basswood macrofossil occurrence?
 * ... that despite damage from a tramway, the Deffenbaugh Site is one of the most valuable archaeological sites in Fayette County, Pennsylvania?
 * ... that although no Mississippian copper plates have ever been found at Cahokia, it is the only Mississippian culture site where a copper workshop has been located by archaeologists?