A whole-plant fossil preserves deeply trilobate leaves and a reproductive axis with five partly united carpels, supporting an Early Cretaceous eudicot assignment while leaving family affinity provisional.
Represented range125.8–122.6 Ma
RegionsLower Yixian Formation, western Liaoning, China
CladesLeefructus mirus · Eudicots
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fossil-range · medium
Leefructus mirus from a 125.8–122.6 Ma bed in the Lower Yixian Formation preserves deeply trilobate leaves and an axillary reproductive axis ending in five long, narrow, partly united carpels, supporting an Early Cretaceous eudicot assignment without fixing Ranunculaceae affinity or the global eudicot first appearance.