Henricosborniidae Ameghino, 1901

Bauzá, Nicolás, Gelfo, Javier N. & López, Guillermo M., 2019, Early steps in the radiation of notoungulate mammals in southern South America: A new henricosborniid from the Eocene of Patagonia, Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 64 (3), pp. 597-607 : 599

Family Henricosborniidae Ameghino, 1901 Genus Orome nov.

ZooBank LSID: urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:3B4338D2-F48F-411C-9370-9F48F198BA5C

Etymology: Named after Oromë , one of the Valar in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Silmarillion.

Type species: Orome deepi sp. nov.; monotypic, see below.

Diagnosis.—Same as for the only described species.

Stratigraphic and geographic range.—Las Flores Formation (Río Chico Group) from Las Flores and Las Violetas Farm localities, Chubut Province, Argentina ( Fig. 2 ); Ypresian (early Eocene), Itaboraian SALMA (sensu Woodburne et. al. 2014).

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Fig. 2. Geochronology of SALMAs and litostratigraphic units mentioned in the text modified from Gelfo et al. (2009) and Krause et al. (2017). The formations outcrop in different localities: 1, Northwest Patagonia, Argentina; 2, Tiupampa, Bolivia; 3, San Jorge Basin, Patagonia, Argentina. Abbreviations: C., Cocatherium; Fm., Formation.