User:Abyssal/Prehistory of North America/DYK/14

... that unlike modern Sassafras, which are deciduous, the extinct species Sassafras hesperia (fossil pictured) may have been evergreen?
...that William King Gregory, a leading authority on vertebrate evolution and the preeminent expert on human dentition, was initially taken in by the Piltdown Man, a hoax which was purported to be an early human?
... that this month celebrates the 100th anniversary of the discovery of the main Burgess Shale locality?
... that the extinct ant Anochetus conisquamis is noted for having a nipple-shaped spine?
... that despite heavy European and other influences, Mexican pottery and ceramics still retain indigenous elements?

... that at some Maya cities, the earliest production of stone stelae coincided with the establishment of dynastic rule?
... that the extinct Hydriomena? protrita was the first geometer moth to be described from the American fossil record?
... that the discovery of the fossil giant ant Titanomyrma (pictured with a hummingbird) in Wyoming indicates that warmth-loving fauna spread through the north between Europe and America during hot spells in the Eocene?
... that the Museo Regional de Arqueología in La Democracia, Guatemala, was founded to house artefacts collected from the local cotton plantations?
...that Pachycheilosuchus, an Early Cretaceous crocodile relative, was less than a meter (3.3 ft) long and had an armored neck?