PORTAL:PALEONTOLOGY DYK 45

... that the Stonerose fossil site contains the earliest known records of Rosaceae, the rose family?
... that the paleobotanists David P. Penhallow and Chester A. Arnold both published studies on the extinct water-fern Azolla primaeva?
... that the fossil big-headed fly Priabona is named for the age of the rocks in which it was found?
...that the Silurian Lau extinction event caused the Earth to temporarily return to a condition similar to how it was before multicellular life evolved?
... that the extinct ant Gesomyrmex germanicus was described from only four fossils?

... that species in the fossil ant genus Myrmeciites are named for Hercules, Goliath, and a river?
... that Tory Member of Parliament Admiral Theobald Jones (1790–1868) was a member of the Geological Society of London and kept a large collection of Carboniferous fishes?
... that the type specimen of the extinct nutmeg yew Torreya clarnensis is located in Florida?
... that the ants Anonychomyrma samlandica and A. geinitzi have been preserved in the same piece of amber?
... that highlights from the history of ornithomimosaur research include the ostrich-like Ornithomimus (skeletal mount pictured), an Archaeornithomimus bonebed in Mongolia, and the bizarre, giant-armed Deinocheirus?

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