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 * ... that the extinct trilobite Bumastus (artist's rendition pictured) was named after its resemblance to large grapes?


 * ... that Ecuadorian archaeologist Jacinto Jijón y Caamaño believed that the Manteño civilization operated as a trading ring, like the Hanseatic League?


 * ... that Lepidotus was a genus of prehistoric fish that existed from the Late Triassic (Rhaetic) to the middle Cretaceous (Cenomanian)?


 * ... that it is not known who built the Peruvian site of Cerro Sechin?


 * ... that members of the extinct bivalve family Bakevelliidae have shells made from rectangular calcium prisms and mother of pearl?