User:Abyssal/Prehistory of North America/DYK/45

... that the discovery of 189 fossils of the mid-Cambrian Odontogriphus thrust it into the centre of a heated debate about the evolution of molluscs, annelids and brachiopods?
... that the extinct ant Anochetus brevidentatus was the second Anochetus species described from Dominican amber?
... that it may not be possible to determine what ?Oryzomys pliocaenicus is?
... that the Makauwahi Cave has been described as "...maybe the richest fossil site in the Hawaiian Islands, perhaps in the entire Pacific Island region"?
... that the name for the extinct birch family genus Kardiasperma is from the Greek words for "heart" and "seed"?

... that the widowed philanthropist Mary Hemenway (pictured), impressed with Frank Cushing's anthropological work among the Zuni, sponsored the Hemenway Southwestern Archaeological Expedition?
... that one species of the extinct bivalve Similodonta was found in 108.90 metres (357.3 ft) down a Welsh borehole?
... that Canadian paleontologist Scott D. Sampson hosted the four episode nature documentary series Dinosaur Planet for the Discovery Channel in 2003?
... that the type specimen of the extinct tortoise beetle Denaeaspis is only 6.04 millimetres (0.238 in) long?
... that the extinct termite bug Termitaradus dominicanus is divided into fourteen brown lobes?