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Re: Cretaceous angiosperms
> I think the oldest is Archaefructus from China, which is about 120-140
> million years old. It's the fossil of an actual plant (not pollen).
*Archaefructus* isn't the oldest one, even though it is pretty old at the
usual Liáoníng age of 122 -- 124 Ma IIRC. I don't know whether it is the
oldest "body fossil" of an angiosperm. The authors hailed it as "A Jurassic
Flower" in the description, well, they were wrong.