Leefructus

{{short description|Extinct genus of eudicot plants}}

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{{Taxobox

| fossil_range = Early Cretaceous, {{fossil_range|124.5}}

| regnum = Plantae

| unranked_divisio = Angiosperms

| unranked_classis = Eudicots

| ordo = Ranunculales

| familia = incertae sedis (probably Ranunculaceae)

| genus = Leefructus

| genus_authority = Sun et al., 2011

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision =

• L. mirus Sun et al., 2011 (type)

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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.{{cite journal |author1=Ge Sun |author2=David L. Dilcher |author3=Hongshan Wang |author4=Zhiduan Chen |year=2011 |title=A eudicot from the Early Cretaceous of China |journal=Nature |volume=471 |issue= 7340|pages=625–628 |doi=10.1038/nature09811 |pmid=21455178|bibcode=2011Natur.471..625S |s2cid=205224036 }}