User:Abyssal/Prehistory of South America/DYK/13

• ... that the extinct trilobite Bumastus (artist's rendition pictured) was named after its resemblance to large grapes?

• ... that Ecuadorian archaeologist Jacinto Jijón y Caamaño believed that the Manteño civilization operated as a trading ring, like the Hanseatic League?

• ... that Lepidotus was a genus of prehistoric fish that existed from the Late Triassic (Rhaetic) to the middle Cretaceous (Cenomanian)?

• ... that it is not known who built the Peruvian site of Cerro Sechin?

• ... that members of the extinct bivalve family Bakevelliidae have shells made from rectangular calcium prisms and mother of pearl?