Andescynodon mendozensis

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AndescynodonPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Amniota
Time the record covers
At least 2.4 million years on record.
The record covers at least 239.48 Mya to 237 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 243.43 Mya to 205.7 Mya.
3 occurrences of Andescynodon mendozensis on record, most of them in the Middle Triassic. 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
3 occurrencesThese 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
2 formations
- Cerro de Las Cabras Formation · Uspallata Group2
- Cacheuta Formation1
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The named rock units Andescynodon mendozensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Andescynodon mendozensis and its relatives
Middle TriassicWhere Andescynodon mendozensis and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Triassic.
Found in the same rock
2 taxa- Pelorocephalus mendozensis1 site
- Vinceria andina1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Andescynodon mendozensis, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
2 references- Osteology of Andescynodon (Cynodontia: Traversodontidae) from the Middle Triassic of Argentina2
- Catalogue of non-mammalian cynodonts in the Vertebrate Paleontology Collection of the Instituto Miguel Lillo, Universidad Nacional de Tucuman, with comments on species1
Each of the 3 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 content1

Picture of Andescynodon mendozensis
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- FunkMonk
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Andescynodon mendozensis was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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 itAndescynodon through timeFormations of the Middle TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Bonaparte 1969