Early Eocene macroflora from the red hot truck stop locality (Meridian, Mississippi, USA)

Palaeontologia Electronica

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2007, Pages

  Danehy, Daniel R ^a,b   Wilf, Peter ^a   Little, Stefan A ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bashi Formation; Cuticle; Eocene; Gulf Coast; New species; Ochnaceae; PETM; Platycarya; Rhabdophyllites diapyros; Rhabdophyllum; Wasatchian

Indexed keywords

BIOTA; CUTICLE; EOCENE; FLORA; LIVERWORT; MORPHOTYPE; NEW GENUS; NEW SPECIES; NEW TAXON; PALEOBOTANY; PALEOCENE; PALYNOMORPH;

GULF COAST [UNITED STATES]; MISSISSIPPI; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

ANACARDIACEAE; FABACEAE; FILICOPHYTA; HEDERA; JUGLANDACEAE; JUGLANS; LAURACEAE; LYGODIUM; MAGNOLIOPHYTA; MAMMALIA; MOLLUSCA; MYRTACEAE; OCHNA; OCHNACEAE; PLATYCARYA; PSIDIUM; RHUS; SERPENTES;

EID: 38049110699     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10948074     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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