User:Abyssal/Prehistory of Europe/DYK/21
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- ... that the ichnogenus Chondrites (pictured) can be used as an indicator of anoxia in sediments?
- ... that the ancient snakefly Cantabroraphidia was the first snakefly described from the El Soplao ambers?
- ... that highlights from the history of ornithomimosaur research include the ostrich-like Ornithomimus (skeletal mount pictured), an Archaeornithomimus bonebed in Mongolia, and the bizarre, giant-armed Deinocheirus?
- ... that Electrinocellia peculiaris is named for the Latin "electrum" meaning amber, "Inocellia", the type genus for Inocelliidae, and "peculiaris" for the enigmatic nature of the species?
- ... that the Lewisian gneiss (pictured), forms the basement to Torridonian and Cambro-Ordovician sedimentary rocks in the Hebridean Terrane?
![An illustration of a fossil of Prodryas persephone](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/Bambolinetta_figure_from_Gastaldi.png/77px-Bambolinetta_figure_from_Gastaldi.png)
- ... that Bambolinetta was probably the only duck species to propel itself underwater with its wings, like a penguin?
- ...that the largest known metal vessel from antiquity is an elaborately decorated bronze volute krater (pictured) discovered at the Vix Grave in Burgundy, France in 1953?
- ... that the skeleton of a pregnant woman and her unborn child dating back to 3000 BC was found in the Kamenica Tumulus in Albania?
- ...that the freshwater weed Azolla may have grown in the Arctic Ocean with enough vigour to plunge the world into an ice age?
- ... that although the prehistoric shark Nanocetorhinus is named for the resemblance of its teeth to miniature Cetorhinus teeth, there is no evidence the two genera are closely related?