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... that the extinct sweat bee genus Oligochlora contains six species all known from the Dominican amber deposits on Hispaniola?
... that the fossil horse Scaphohippus became extinct when tectonic barriers between the Great Plains and Great Basin of North America disappeared about 13 million years ago?
... that the only male " sweat bee" to have been documented from Dominican amber is the type specimen for the extinct Eickwortapis?
... that unlike living rorqual whales, the late Miocene genus Plesiobalaenoptera was probably not capable of ram feeding?
... that a fossil flower of the extinct palm Roystonea palaea shows damage possibly made by a bat or bird?

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