Las Violetas Farm (Eocene of Argentina)

Where: Chubut, Argentina (45.0° S, 67.0° W: paleocoordinates 47.6° S, 56.9° W)

• coordinate stated in text

When: Itaborian SALMA zone, Las Flores Formation (Río Chico Group), Ypresian (56.0 - 47.8 Ma)

• Bauzá et al. 2019: Las Flores Formation, which is part of the Paleogene Rio Chico Group, together with the lower levels of the Las Violetas and Peñas Coloradas formations and, the upper Koluel-Kaike Formation (Raigemborn et al. 2010).

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the MLP

• Bauzá et al. 2019: specimens housed in Museo de La Plata, Argentina

Primary reference: N. Bauzá, J. N. Gelfo, and G. M. López. 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):597-603 [P. Mannion/G. Varnham/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 203121: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Grace Varnham on 29.07.2019, edited by Evangelos Vlachos

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Notoungulata - Archaeopithecidae
Teratopithecus elpidophoros López et al. 2020 notoungulate
 Notoungulata - Henricosborniidae
Orome deepi n. sp.
Orome deepi n. sp. Bauzá et al. 2019 notoungulate
MLP-90-II-5-1631 (type)