User:Abyssal/Prehistory of South America/DYK/13

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... that the extinct trilobite Bumastus (artist's rendition pictured) was named after its resemblance to large grapes?

... that Ecuadorian archaeologist Jacinto Jijón y Caamaño believed that the Manteño civilization operated as a trading ring, like the Hanseatic League?

... that Lepidotus was a genus of prehistoric fish that existed from the Late Triassic (Rhaetic) to the middle Cretaceous (Cenomanian)?

... that it is not known who built the Peruvian site of Cerro Sechin?

... that members of the extinct bivalve family Bakevelliidae have shells made from rectangular calcium prisms and mother of pearl?

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