Wheeleroxylon atascosense Estrada-Ruiz et al. 2010 (mallow)

Angiospermae - Malvales - Malvaceae

Full reference: E. Estrada-Ruiz, H. I. Martínez-Cabrera, and S. R. S. Cevallos-Ferriz. 2010. Upper Cretaceous woods from the Olmos Formation (late Campanian–early Maastrichtian), Coahuila, Mexico. American Journal of Botany 97(7):1179-1194

Belongs to Wheeleroxylon according to E. Estrada-Ruiz et al. 2010

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: Its type locality is Atascoso Ranch, which is in a Campanian/Maastrichtian coarse channel fill sandstone in the Olmos Formation of Mexico

Ecology: "photoautotroph"

Distribution: found only at Atascoso Ranch

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