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Archaefructus is an
extinct genus of
herbaceous aquatic seed
plants with
three known species.
Fossil material ****igned to this
genus originates from the...
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Archaefructus liaoningensis from China, is
dated about 125
million years old. Even
earlier from
China is the 125–130
million years old
Archaefructus sinensis...
- are
Montsechia from the
Barremian aged Las
Hoyas beds of
Spain and
Archaefructus from the Barremian-Aptian
boundary Yixian Formation in China. Tricolpate...
- It has been
placed in the
ceratophyllalean family Montsechiaceae.
Archaefructus "Fossilised
remains of world’s
oldest flower discovered in Spain", The...
- origins,
although they
comprise less than 2% of the
angiosperm species.
Archaefructus represents one of the oldest, most
complete angiosperm fossils which...
- the Yixian. Five
species of
flowering plant were
present (three of
Archaefructus, one of
Archaeamphora and one of
Hyrcantha (formerly Sinocarpus), as...
- S2CID 1910388. In fact,
Archaefructus probably didn't bear true flowers: see Friis, E.M.; Doyle, J.A.; Endress, P.K.; Leng, Q. (2003). "
Archaefructus—angiosperm precursor...
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sediments from
Seymour Island, Antarctica. The
aquatic plant fossil Archaefructus from the
Early Cretaceous of Liaoning,
China possibly also
belongs to...
- Z. (1998). "In
Search of the
First Flower: A Jur****ic Angiosperm,
Archaefructus, from
Northeast China". Science. 282 (5394): 1692–1695. doi:10.1126/science...
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latter avoided dry
conditions by
growing very
close to
bodies of water.
Archaefructus has been
described as the
earliest known flowering plant (Angiosperm)...
