Conohyus
Conohyus was an extinct genus of suid that existed during the Miocene in Europe and in Asia.
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TetraconodontinaePBDB
- Diet
- omnivorePBDB, for Suidae
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Suidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Artiodactyla
Time the record covers
At least 2.7 million years on record.
The record covers at least 13.82 Mya to 11.1 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 5.333 Mya.
28 occurrences of Conohyus on record, most of them in the Miocene. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.
When
28 occurrences- Miocene100%
These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.
Found in
6 formations
- Manchar Formation7
- Nagri Formation · Siwalik Group2
- Chinji Formation · Siwalik Group1
- Lower Bone Bed Formation1
- Studienka Formation1
- Mansar Formation · Siwalik Group1
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The named rock units Conohyus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 15 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Conohyus and its relatives
MioceneWhere Conohyus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
303 taxa- Bovidae9 sites
- Dorcatherium7 sites
- Anchitherium aurelianense6 sites
- Dorcabune6 sites
- Hemimeryx6 sites
- Proboscidea6 sites
- Rhinocerotidae6 sites
- Anthracotheriidae5 sites
- Listriodon pentapotamiae5 sites
- Prodeinotherium pentapotamiae5 sites
- Amebelodontinae4 sites
- Brachypotherium brachypus4 sites
- Euprox furcatus4 sites
- Giraffokeryx punjabiensis4 sites
- Gomphotheriidae4 sites
- Sivameryx4 sites
- Aceratherium3 sites
- Amphicyon3 sites
- Anthracotherium3 sites
- Cervidae3 sites
- Chalicomys3 sites
- Felidae3 sites
- Gomphotherium angustidens3 sites
- Hyainailouros sulzeri3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 25 sites for Conohyus, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.
This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.
Entered from
18 references- Preliminary report on the geology and vertebrate fauna of the Miocene Manchar Formation, Sind, Pakistan7
- Stratigraphy of Neogene mammals in Poland3
- Les fossiles de mammifères miocènes de la colletion de J.-P. Hartmann conservés dans le Musée du Savignéen2
- A comparison of larger fossil mammals in the stratotypes of the Chinji, Nagri and Dhok Pathan Formations (Punjab, Pakistan)2
- Temporal and spatial distribution of Miocene mammals in the western Carpatians (Slovakia)1
- New specimen of Conohyus indicus (Lydekker, 1884) (Mammalia: Suidae) from the base of the Late Miocene, Jammu, India1
- Les mammiferes du gisement miocene inferieure de Li Mae Long, Thailande; Systematique biostratigraphie et paleoenvironment1
- Kleinsäugerstratigraphie in der miozänen Hörnlischüttung (Ostschweiz); (Biostratigraphy of small mammals in the Hörnlischüttung of Miocene age (East Switzerland))1
- Miocene vertebrates from the Siwalik Group, Western Nepal1
- Conohyus huenermanni n.sp., eine kleine Schweinart aus der Oberen Süßwassermolasse Beyerns.1
- Decouverte d'un faune de Mammiferes terrestres d'age vallesien dans le falun miocene de Doue-la-fontaine (Maine-et-Loire)1
- Additional fossil suid material from the lower Siwalik of Ramnagar, J&K State, India1
Each of the 28 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. 6 further references are not listed. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content2
Picture of Conohyus
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Ghedoghedo
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
Structured light scan
- Source
- MorphoSource
- Licence
- In Copyright
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
- Specimen
- Conohyus sindiensis · YPM:VP:YPM VP 020073
Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
The description on this site
- Source
- Wikipedia, “Conohyus”
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itTetraconodontinae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Pilgrim 1926