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- ... that the ammonite Hildoceras bifrons (pictured) has been used as an index fossil to help identify the age of rocks?
- ...that the Sao civilisation is the earliest to have left clear traces of their presence in the territory of modern Cameroon?
- ... that Aegirocassis is the earliest example of massive filter-feeder animals discovered?
- ... that Archaeoindris (pictured), a recently extinct giant lemur from Madagascar, was the largest known lemur, comparable in size to a male gorilla?
- ... that the extinct ant Afropone was first described from fossils in kimberlite?