Description

Liaoningocladus boii
Early Cretaceous
Yixian Formation
Liaoning, China.

106mm frond on 133mm slab. Big, attractive hand specimen.

Liaoningocladus is a genus of conifer that lived during the Early Cretaceous in northeastern China.  So far, it appears this plant is known only from that time and place.  Some specimens show signs of insect galls (swelling of the plant tissue caused by feeding or burrowing).