What is "cronopio"

A cronopio is a type of fictional person appearing in works by Argentine writer Julio Cortázar (August 26, 1914–February 12, 1984).

Together with famas (literally fames) and esperanzas (hopes), cronopios are the subject of several short stories in his 1962 book Historias de cronopios y de famas and Cortazar continued to write about cronopios, famas, and esperanzas in other texts through the 1960s.

Cronopio is an extinct genus of dryolestoid mammals known from the Río Negro region of Argentina.

Cronopio may refer to either of the following:

• Cronopio (literature), a class of literary characters
• Cronopio (mammal), a prehistoric animal