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Cooksonia

genus of plants (fossil)
Taxon fossil_taxon Q131986
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Cooksonia

Summary

Cooksonia is a fossil taxon[1]. Cooksonia ranks in the top 3% of fossil_taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (273 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Cooksonia's image is recorded as Cooksonia pertoni.png[3].
  • Cooksonia's image is recorded as Cooksonia.png[4].
  • Cooksonia's instance of is recorded as fossil taxon[5].
  • Cooksonia's taxon rank is recorded as genus[6].
  • Isabel Clifton Cookson is named after Cooksonia[7].
  • Cooksonia's parent taxon is recorded as Rhyniopsida[8].
  • Cooksonia's taxon name is recorded as Cooksonia[9].
  • Cooksonia's Commons category is recorded as Cooksonia[10].
  • Cooksonia's has part is recorded as Cooksonia pertoni[11].
  • Cooksonia's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/082jhb[12].
  • Cooksonia's GBIF taxon ID is recorded as 3229205[13].
  • Cooksonia's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as science/Cooksonia[14].
  • Cooksonia's different from is recorded as Cooksonia[15].
  • Cooksonia's Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID is recorded as 2120052[16].
  • Cooksonia's IRMNG ID is recorded as 1267314[17].
  • Cooksonia's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 2778881297[18].
  • Cooksonia's Open Tree of Life ID is recorded as 5288204[19].

Why It Matters

Cooksonia ranks in the top 3% of fossil_taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (273 views/month).[2] Cooksonia has Wikipedia articles in 20 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[20]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . On the Plant-Remains from the Downtonian of England and Wales. wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . 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. [20] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 17d ago · Paucabot · 2026-05-05 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Taxon rank → genus
    Temporal range start → Q62412
    Parent taxon → Rhyniopsida
    Named after → Isabel Clifton Cookson
    + 7 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P523]]: [[Q62412]]"
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