| Leefructus Temporal range: Early Cretaceous, 124.5 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓ | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| (unranked): | Angiosperms |
| (unranked): | Eudicots |
| Order: | Ranunculales |
| Family: | incertae sedis (probably Ranunculaceae) |
| Genus: | Leefructus Sun et al., 2011 |
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Leefructus is an extinct genus of eudicot plants which existed in Yixian Formation, China during the early Cretaceous period. It was first named by Ge Sun, David L. Dilcher, Hongshan Wang and Zhiduan Chen in 2011 and the type species is Leefructus mirus.
References
- Ge Sun; David L. Dilcher; Hongshan Wang; Zhiduan Chen (2011). "A eudicot from the Early Cretaceous of China". Nature. 471 (7340): 625–628. Bibcode:2011Natur.471..625S. doi:10.1038/nature09811. PMID 21455178. S2CID 205224036.
| Taxon identifiers | |
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| Leefructus mirus | |
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