Among the Estercuel paleoflora found in highlights an ancestor of the current water lilies, an angiosperm aquatic called «Acuatifolia fluitans». The study coordinator Luis Miguel Sender explains that this type of plant had only been found in a Lower Cretaceous reservoir also in the state of Kansas.
The land where the remains appeared are part of an open pit coal mining in the town of Estercuel. The study has been published in the latest issue of the journal Geodiversitas.
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