User:Abyssal/Prehistory of North America/DYK/15
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- ... that the ichnogenus Chondrites (pictured) can be used as an indicator of anoxia in sediments?
- ... that Kendallina, a genus of trilobite, lived in North America during the Upper Cambrian?
- ... that the recently named trematopid temnospondyl Fedexia was named after the shipping service FedEx, which owned the land where the holotype specimen was found?
- ... that the extinct Eocene maple species Acer rousei is a possible ancestor to the vine maple?
- ...that Madison Limestone, a layer of mostly carbonate rocks formed in the Mississippian period, serves as an aquifer and an oil reservoir in the Rocky Mountains and Great Plains areas?
- ... that the "Bottoms" of Milford, Ohio, contain a Woodland period archaeological site?
- ... that the extinct Neocorynura electra, found in Dominican amber, is the only known species of Neocorynura "sweat bee" from the Greater Antilles?
- ... that the Ka'Kabish archaeological site in Belize has revealed evidence of a Mayan city?
- ... that the extinct ants Azteca alpha carried larvae of the nematode Formicodiplogaster myrmenema?
- ... that the pattern of the veins on fossil leaves of the extinct golden-club Orontium wolfei confirm it as a member of the arum family?