Leefructus
Appearance
Leefructus Temporal range: Early Cretaceous,
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Family: | incertae sedis (probably Ranunculaceae)
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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.[1]
References
- ^ "A eudicot from the Early Cretaceous of China". Nature. 471 (7340): 625–628. 2011. doi:10.1038/nature09811. PMID 21455178.
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