Archaefructus is an extinct genus of herbaceous aquatic seed plants with three known species. Fossil material assigned to this genus originates from the...
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Archaefructus liaoningensis from China; dated to around 125 million years old. Even earlier from China is the 125–130 million years old Archaefructus...
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are Montsechia from the Barremian aged Las Hoyas beds of Spain and Archaefructus from the Barremian-Aptian boundary Yixian Formation in China. Tricolpate...
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origins, although they comprise less than 2% of the angiosperm species. Archaefructus represents one of the oldest, most complete angiosperm fossils which...
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It has been placed in the ceratophyllalean family Montsechiaceae. Archaefructus "Fossilised remains of world’s oldest flower discovered in Spain", The...
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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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the Yixian. Five species of flowering plant were present (three of Archaefructus, one of Archaeamphora and one of Hyrcantha (formerly Sinocarpus), as...
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described from the late Cretaceous of Israel. The aquatic plant fossil Archaefructus from the Early Cretaceous of Liaoning, China possibly also belongs to...
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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)...
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earliest known macrofossil confidently identified as an angiosperm, Archaefructus liaoningensis, is dated to about 125 million years BP (the Cretaceous...
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Z. (1998). "In Search of the First Flower: A Jurassic Angiosperm, Archaefructus, from Northeast China". Science. 282 (5394): 1692–1695. doi:10.1126/science...
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(1998-11-27). "In Search of the First Flower: A Jurassic Angiosperm, Archaefructus, from Northeast China". Science. 282 (5394): 1692–1695. doi:10.1126/science...
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-K. (1998). "In Search of the First Flower: A Jurassic Angiosperm, Archaefructus, from Northeast China" (PDF). Science. 282 (5394): 1692–1695. doi:10...
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Zhekun (1998). "In Search of the First Flower: A Jurassic Angiosperm, Archaefructus , from Northeast China". Science. 282 (5394): 1692–1695. doi:10.1126/science...
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Chengia, Ephedrites, and Liaoxia; and also early angiosperms, including Archaefructus, Hyrcantha (formerly Sinocarpus), Leefructus, and Potamogeton. Leefructus...
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