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Two Prionosuchus specimens and a human to scale
...that the
extinct
crocodile
-like
Prionosuchus
is the largest
amphibian
known to have existed?
...that the
Choristodera
are extinct
reptiles
that lived during the time of the
dinosaurs
and have a
skull
structure similar to that of the modern day
Gharial
?
... that the extinct plant species
Eucommia jeffersonensis
and
Eucommia rolandii
were both described from fossils in 1997?
... that the extinct
snakefly
Alavaraphidia
is known from a single female trapped in amber
(pictured)
?
... that the extinct maple
section
Torada
is only known from the three
Eocene
species
A. stonebergae
,
A. toradense
, and
A. washingtonense
?
A life restoration of Waptia fieldensis
... that the shrimp-like 510-million-year-old
arthropod
Waptia
(artist's restoration pictured)
was named after two mountains?
... that the early
dinosaur-like
animal
Lagerpeton
was only 70 cm (28 in) long?
... that the extinct
monitor lizard
Ovoo gurvel
has "mystery bones" in its skull?
... that the extinct
termite bug
Termitaradus dominicanus
is divided into fourteen brown lobes?
... that the
extinct
arachnid
Attercopus
was once considered as the world's oldest
spider
?
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