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Byttneria perplexans, from the Florissant Formation of Colorado appears to be betulaceous, and placed in the fossil genus Asterocarpinus.
A flower assigned to Bombax sepultiflorum is recorded from the Oligocene of France [2]. An illustration is available [3].
The genus Burretia is based on fossil flowers from the Miocene of Germany. It has been compared with Brownlowioideae, but it is argued that this is incompatible with its possession of parallel anthers, s protruding connective, and a calyx of 4 or 5 thick fused sepals, and that it may represent a Craigia or Tilia.
A flower, assigned to the species Eriotheca prima, was found in the Fonseca Formation (Upper Miocene and Pliocene) in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais [1].
Fossils of a flower with a (5 or) 10-loculate ovary and 5 lanceolate perianth segments (sepals?) have been found in the latest Cretaceous of New Zealand.
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