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![Two Prionosuchus specimens and a human to scale](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/be/Prionosuchus_scale.svg/100px-Prionosuchus_scale.svg.png)
- ...that the extinct crocodile-like Prionosuchus is the largest amphibian known to have existed?
- ...that the Choristodera are extinct reptiles that lived during the time of the dinosaurs and have a skull structure similar to that of the modern day Gharial?
- ... that the extinct plant species Eucommia jeffersonensis and Eucommia rolandii were both described from fossils in 1997?
- ... that the extinct snakefly Alavaraphidia is known from a single female trapped in amber (pictured)?
- ... that the extinct maple section Torada is only known from the three Eocene species A. stonebergae, A. toradense, and A. washingtonense?
![A life restoration of Waptia fieldensis](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/ba/Waptia_fieldensis_Restoration.jpg/100px-Waptia_fieldensis_Restoration.jpg)
- ... that the shrimp-like 510-million-year-old arthropod Waptia (artist's restoration pictured) was named after two mountains?
- ... that the early dinosaur-like animal Lagerpeton was only 70 cm (28 in) long?
- ... that the extinct monitor lizard Ovoo gurvel has "mystery bones" in its skull?
- ... that the extinct termite bug Termitaradus dominicanus is divided into fourteen brown lobes?
- ... that the extinct arachnid Attercopus was once considered as the world's oldest spider?