User:Abyssal/Prehistory of North America/DYK/36

... that the Maya city of La Blanca in northern Guatemala features an unusually well built palace complex for such a small city?
... that the extinct maple Acer dettermani is only known from the flank of a volcano?
... that the Triassic reptile Vancleavea, which is specialized to live in the water, differs greatly from all other early archosauriforms?
... that the extinct legume Hymenaea allendis is the second Hymenaea species described from Mexican amber?
... that fossils of the extinct bivalve family Praenuculidae have been found on every continent except Antarctica?

... that the extinct ant Anochetus intermedius had mandibles longer than its head?
... that the Late Triassic archosauromorph Uatchitodon is the earliest known venomous reptile?
... that the Miocene ant Acropyga glaesaria is one of the oldest examples of trophobiosis?
... that the extinct snakefly Agulla protomaculata is the only snakefly described from the Green River Formation?
... that with a 20 million year fossil record, Acer chaneyi has the longest fossil record of the Western North American maples?