†Bombacoxylon pondaungense Licht et al. 2014 (mallow)
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Angiospermae - Malvales - Malvaceae
Full reference: A. Licht, A. Boura, and D. De Franceschi. 2014. Systematic descriptions, in Fossil woods from the late middle Eocene Pondaung Formation, Myanmar. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 202:29-46
Belongs to Bombacoxylon according to A. Licht et al. 2014
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris, MNHN.F.40112.L1/3, L2/3 & L3/3, a wood. Its type locality is Thamingyauk Kyitchaung, which is in a Bartonian terrestrial horizon in the Pondaung Formation of Myanmar.
Ecology: "photoautotroph"
Distribution: found only at Thamingyauk Kyitchaung
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