User:Abyssal/Portal:Paleogene/DYK/35

... that the name Ginkgo dissecta was first coined in 1974 but not formalized until 2002?
... that Appianoporites, Margaretbarromyces, and Quatsinoporites are all fossil fungi from Vancouver Island, British Columbia?
... that Kairuku grebneffi, an extinct species of penguin, was nearly 1.5 metres (4.9 ft) long and weighed 50% more than modern Emperor Penguins?
... that when the extinct forester moth Neurosymploca? oligocenica was described, a second fossil was known but unavailable for study?
...that though no fossil grasses have been discovered, the earliest-known grassland ecosystem, the 30+ million-year-old Tinguiririca fauna of Chile, can be detected through the grazers' teeth?