User:Abyssal/Prehistory of South America/DYK/6

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... that Henri Lavachery, the first professional archaeologist to visit Easter Island, founded the Society of Americanists in Belgium?

... that Frederic Brewster Loomis uncovered vertebrate fossils that were still exhibited at Amherst College's Beneski Museum of Natural History almost a century later?

... that the extinct arum family plants Petrocardium and Montrichardia aquatica are known only from the Paleocene Cerrejón Formation rainforest in Colombia?

... that the moth lacewing genus Principiala is known for three, possibly four, fossils?

... that naturalist Charles Darwin's book Geological Observations on South America is based on travels during the second voyage of HMS Beagle?

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