• doubt exists about exactly where in Ontario at least two of the three known specimens of the extinct epiphytic moss Neomacounia nitida were collected in the 1860s?

Facts on topics related to List of extinct plants

Permian

• carbonate hardgrounds were most commonly formed during calcite sea intervals in the Ordovician and Jurassic periods in Earth's history, but were virtually absent from the aragonite seas of the Permian era?
• the Delaware Basin in Texas contains fossilised coral reefs from the Permian era?

Cretaceous

• New Caledonia, an island fragment of the sunken continent Zealandia since the Cretaceous, and home to the Kagu (pictured), has been likened to a "Jurassic Park"?
• Polar dinosaurs could have walked to Australia, because during the early Cretaceous the continent of Australia was still linked to Antarctica?
• Poricy Park in New Jersey is known for allowing limited collecting at its Cretaceous-era fossil shell beds?
• UA 8699, a broken molar from the Cretaceous of Madagascar, may be a fragment of the only Mesozoic marsupial from the southern continents?
• Repenomamus may have been the largest mammal in the Cretaceous period and is the only mammal known to have eaten non-avian dinosaurs?
• Trapalcotherium matuastensis is one of five species of mammals recognized among seven fossil teeth from the Cretaceous Allen Formation of Argentina?
• the Cretaceous Malagasy mammal Lavanify is most closely related to a species from India?
• the Cretaceous mammal Argentodites is known only from a blade-like tooth with eight cusps arranged in a row?
• the Cretaceous terrestrial crocodilian Araripesuchus is known from five distinct species, two from Africa and the other three from South America?
• the extinct spider Eoplectreurys is the oldest described genus of Haplogynae, predating spiders from Cretaceous amber in Jordan and Lebanon?

Jurassic

• carbonate hardgrounds were most commonly formed during calcite sea intervals in the Ordovician and Jurassic periods in Earth's history, but were virtually absent from the aragonite seas of the Permian era?
• plate reconstructions (example pictured) that use magnetic stripe patterns can only go back to the Jurassic period, as there is no older oceanic crust?
• Lophostropheus from Normandy is one of the only dinosaurs known from the Triassic-Jurassic boundary?
• the geology of Gloucestershire (Garden Cliff pictured) is one of the most diverse in England, with rocks from the Precambrian through to the Jurassic represented?
• the Rotunda Museum houses one of the foremost collections of Jurassic geology on the Yorkshire Coast?