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... that the Late Eocene marine Hoko River Formation is noted for producing crab, gastropod, cephalopod, and wood fossils?
... that the extinct sweat bee Halictus? savenyei was the first fossil bee from Canada to be described?
... that the fossil ant Azteca eumeces is one of two Azteca species found in Dominican amber?
... that species in the fossil ant genus Myrmeciites are named for Hercules, Goliath, and a river?
... that the type specimen of the extinct nutmeg yew Torreya clarnensis is located in Florida?

... that the Miocene maple Acer traini may be the same species as the living Douglas Maple (fruits pictured)?
... that unusual archosauromorph reptile Teraterpeton from the Late Triassic of Nova Scotia had nostril openings in its skull that were longer than its eye sockets?
...that geologist T.H. Clark retired from McGill University in Quebec, Canada, at the age of 100, after teaching for 69 years?
... that 94% of Dartmoor kistvaens (pictured) have the longer axis of the tomb oriented NW/SE, apparently so that the deceased face the sun?
...that the largest sea turtles ever to have swum the oceans belonged to the family Protostegidae?