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Fruits, seeds and flowers from the Bovay and Bolden clay pits (early Eocene Tallahatta Formation, Claiborne Group), northern Mississippi, USA

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Blanchard, J, Wang, H, Dilcher, D (2016): Fruits, seeds and flowers from the Bovay and Bolden clay pits (early Eocene Tallahatta Formation, Claiborne Group), northern Mississippi, USA. Palaeontologia Electronica 19 (3): 1-59, DOI: 10.26879/579, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.26879/579

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