PORTAL:PALEONTOLOGY DYK 48

... that the Jurassic conifer Araucaria mirabilis (cone pictured) of Argentina may have been a primary food for sauropods?
... that a fossil flower of the extinct palm Roystonea palaea shows damage possibly made by a bat or bird?
... that highlights from the history of ankylosaur research include one of the first dinosaurs ever discovered and a dinosaur with armored eyelids?
...that American lions were probably cave lions who crossed the Bering land bridge into Alaska?
... that Kendallina, a genus of trilobite, lived in North America during the Upper Cambrian?

... that the recently described synapsid Raranimus (pictured) is the most basal member of the order Therapsida, from which mammals are a descendant taxon?
... that the extinct sweat bee Halictus? savenyei was the first fossil bee from Canada to be described?
... that fossil specimens of the extinct scorpionfly family Dinopanorpidae, which includes Dinopanorpa and Dinokanaga, sometimes have preserved dark with light to clear color patterning?
... that the extinct snakefly genus Proraphidia is known from fossils found in Spain, England, and Kazakhstan?
... that remains of the recently described saber-toothed anomodont Tiarajudens were uncovered from a location in Brazil that was first found using Google Earth?

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