Aegirosaurus

genus of ichthyosaurs
Taxon fossil_taxon Q2640204
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Aegirosaurus

Summary

Aegirosaurus is a fossil taxon[1]. Aegirosaurus ranks in the top 4% of fossil_taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (17 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Aegirosaurus's image is recorded as Macropterygius leptospondylus.JPG[3].
  • Aegirosaurus's image is recorded as Macropterygius posthumus.JPG[4].
  • Aegirosaurus's instance of is recorded as fossil taxon[5].
  • Aegirosaurus's taxon rank is recorded as genus[6].
  • Ægir is named after Aegirosaurus[7].
  • Aegirosaurus's parent taxon is recorded as Platypterygiinae[8].
  • Aegirosaurus's location of discovery is recorded as Solnhofen Limestone[9].
  • Aegirosaurus's location of discovery is recorded as Chauvac-Laux-Montaux[10].
  • Aegirosaurus's taxon name is recorded as Aegirosaurus[11].
  • Aegirosaurus's Commons category is recorded as Aegirosaurus[12].
  • Aegirosaurus's start time is recorded as -152100000-00-00T00:00:00Z[13].
  • Aegirosaurus's end time is recorded as -132900000-00-00T00:00:00Z[14].
  • Aegirosaurus's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/02qzvyz[15].
  • Aegirosaurus's Fossilworks taxon ID is recorded as 173195[16].
  • Aegirosaurus's GBIF taxon ID is recorded as 4818024[17].
  • Aegirosaurus's length is recorded as {'unit': 'Q11573', 'amount': '+2'}[18].
  • Aegirosaurus's IRMNG ID is recorded as 1430375[19].
  • Aegirosaurus's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 2776262317[20].
  • Aegirosaurus's Open Tree of Life ID is recorded as 4127855[21].

Why It Matters

Aegirosaurus ranks in the top 4% of fossil_taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (17 views/month).[2] Aegirosaurus has Wikipedia articles in 9 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[22]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
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  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . Fossilworks. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . Open Tree of Life reference taxonomy version 3.6. Retrieved . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [22] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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