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![Fossil of Asterotrygon maloneyi.](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f3/Corylus_johnsonii_Holotype_SR_98-01-02_A.jpg/100px-Corylus_johnsonii_Holotype_SR_98-01-02_A.jpg)
- ... that the extinct hazel species Corylus johnsonii (fruit pictured) resembles three modern hazels found in China?
- ... that the extinct legume Hymenaea allendis is the second Hymenaea species described from Mexican amber?
- ... that the family placement for the fossil moth genus Dominickus was not noticed until entomologist Norman Tindale was looking at pictures of modern moths from Australia?
- ... that the extinct maple Acer dettermani is only known from the flank of a volcano?
- ... that the fossil yew Taxus masonii was described from fifteen fossils collected from 1942 to 1989?