Coniopternium andinum

Schmidt et al., 2019 · CC BY 3.0 · via Wikidata/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ConiopterniumPBDB
- Diet
- herbivorePBDB, for Litopterna
- Life habit
- scansorialPBDB, for Eutheria
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At most 8 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 29 Mya and 21 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Coniopternium andinum on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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
1 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
1 formation
- Agua de la Piedra Formation · Malargüe Group1
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The named rock units Coniopternium andinum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Coniopternium andinum and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Coniopternium andinum and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
36 taxa- Acaremyidae1 site
- Andrewsornis1 site
- Archaeohyrax suniensis1 site
- Archaeotypotherium1 site
- Argyrohyrax1 site
- Argyrohyrax proavus1 site
- Asmodeus petrasnerus1 site
- Fieratherium sorex1 site
- Gastropoda1 site
- Glyptodontidae1 site
- Gualta cuyana1 site
- Hegetotheriinae1 site
- Hegetotheriopsis sulcatus1 site
- Interatheriidae1 site
- Interatheriinae1 site
- Lambdaconus suinus1 site
- Litopterna1 site
- Megalonychidae1 site
- Mendozahippus fierensis1 site
- Meteutatus lagenaformis1 site
- Pharsophorus1 site
- Proadinotherium1 site
- Proborhyaena gigantea1 site
- Progaleopithecus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Coniopternium andinum, 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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1

Picture of Coniopternium andinum
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Schmidt et al., 2019
- Licence
- CC BY 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Coniopternium andinum was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
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 itConiopternium through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ameghino 1894