User:Abyssal/Prehistory of South America/DYK/11
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- ...that the Peruvian village Písac gets its name from a ruined Incan citadel which represents the wing of a partridge?
- ... that the Famatinian orogeny occurred long before the rise of the Andes in what is now western South America?
- ... that fossils of extinct giant cicadas (pictured) were once misidentified as the oldest known butterflies?
- ... that with a total weight of over 100 tonnes (example of fragment pictured), Campo del Cielo is the heaviest meteorite ever found on Earth?
- ... that the extinct crocodyliform Sebecus (skull pictured) was named after Sebek, the ancient Egyptian crocodile god?