PORTAL:PALEONTOLOGY DYK 29

...that fossil Thelodont fish (depiction pictured) surprised scientists by showing that stomachs evolved before jaws?
... that the identification of azibiids, a type of fossil primate including Azibius, as either strepsirrhine or haplorine weighs heavily on the African or Asian origins of primates?
... that a fossil plesiosaur skull named Kimmerosaurus may be the missing head of a Colymbosaurus?
... that fossils of the extinct reptile Acallosuchus were found in a cigar box in 1983?
... that fossils of the extinct hazelnut relative Coryloides were informally identified as palm nuts first?

... that the Miocene maple Acer traini may be the same species as the living Douglas Maple (fruits pictured)?
...that the discovery of Lazarussuchus showed that choristoderes, a type of aquatic reptile, had not gone extinct in the Eocene, but persisted for millions of years after?
... that the limestone quarries near Ein Yabrud in the Judean Mountains have produced the only fossils for the extinct snakes Pachyrhachis and Haasiophis?
...that the discovery of Archaeamphora longicervia, the first known carnivorous plant, suggests that flowering plants should have originated much earlier than previously thought?
... that the remains of the armoured dinosaur Europelta were uncovered in a coal mine in Spain in 2011?

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