Muzquizoxylon Estrada-Ruiz et al. 2010

Angiospermae - Cornales - Cornaceae

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

Parent taxon: Cornaceae according to E. Estrada-Ruiz et al. 2010

Sister taxa: Alangiophyllum, Cornaceophyllum, Cornoideae, Cornophyllum, Cornus, Dendrobenthamia, Diplomastixia, Dunstania, Eomastixia, Ganitrocera, Hartzia, Lanfrancia, Langtonia, Mastixicarpum, Mastixioideae, Mastixioidiocarpum, Nyssidium, Platymastixia, Plexiplica, Portnallia, Retinomastixia, Tectocarya, Xylomastixia

Subtaxa: none

Ecology: "photoautotroph"

Distribution: found only at Santa Elena Ranch (Cretaceous of Mexico)

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