User:Abyssal/Prehistory of South America/DYK/3




 * ... that bodies (pictured) buried in Chauchilla Cemetery still retain skins and hair?


 * ... that the extinct, Triassic, bivalve family Cassianellidae may have evolved from the family Bakevelliidae, which survived longer into the Eocene?


 * ... that microbial mats increase our understanding of evolution by helping to preserve soft-bodied organisms and soft parts of hard-shelled animals?


 * ... that small shells of Trigonoconcha are triangular?


 * ... that Carletonomys, a rodent related to modern rice rats, is known only from one incomplete upper jaw from over 1 million year old silt deposits in Argentina?