Conohyus sindiensis

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ConohyusPBDB
- 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 2.1 million years on record.
The record covers at least 13.82 Mya to 11.63 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 20.45 Mya to 5.333 Mya.
11 occurrences of Conohyus sindiensis 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
11 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
3 formations
- Manchar Formation7
- Chinji Formation · Siwalik Group1
- Nagri Formation · Siwalik Group1
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The named rock units Conohyus sindiensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Conohyus sindiensis and its relatives
MioceneWhere Conohyus sindiensis and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
145 taxa- Bovidae6 sites
- Dorcabune6 sites
- Proboscidea6 sites
- Anthracotheriidae5 sites
- Dorcatherium5 sites
- Hemimeryx5 sites
- Listriodon pentapotamiae5 sites
- Prodeinotherium pentapotamiae5 sites
- Amebelodontinae4 sites
- Giraffokeryx punjabiensis4 sites
- Rhinocerotidae4 sites
- Sivameryx4 sites
- Amphicyon3 sites
- Anthracotherium3 sites
- Hyainailouros sulzeri3 sites
- Progiraffa3 sites
- Brachypotherium2 sites
- Dorcatherium minus2 sites
- Gomphotheriidae2 sites
- Helicoportax2 sites
- Hippopotamodon2 sites
- Listriodon2 sites
- Palaeomerycidae2 sites
- Stegolophodon2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Conohyus sindiensis, 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
5 references- Preliminary report on the geology and vertebrate fauna of the Miocene Manchar Formation, Sind, Pakistan7
- Les mammiferes du gisement miocene inferieure de Li Mae Long, Thailande; Systematique biostratigraphie et paleoenvironment1
- Miocene vertebrates from the Siwalik Group, Western Nepal1
- Additional fossil suid material from the lower Siwalik of Ramnagar, J&K State, India1
- A comparison of larger fossil mammals in the stratotypes of the Chinji, Nagri and Dhok Pathan Formations (Punjab, Pakistan)1
Each of the 11 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. 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 sindiensis
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itConohyus through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Lydekker 1884)