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- ... that the extinct trilobite Bumastus (artist's rendition pictured) was named after its resemblance to large grapes?
- ... that the fossil bivalve Emiliodonta shared its name with a coccolithophore for about a decade?
- ... that the Ordovician age bivalve Villicumia has overlapping teeth seen in few other bivalves?
- ... that fossils of the extinct bivalve family Praenuculidae have been found on every continent except Antarctica?
- ...that ostracoderms are the earliest known vertebrate animals?