Cymbospondylus

genus of Triassic ichthyosaurs
Taxon fossil_taxon Q133027
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Cymbospondylus

Summary

Cymbospondylus is a fossil taxon[1]. Cymbospondylus ranks in the top 3% of fossil_taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (178 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Cymbospondylus's image is recorded as Cymbospondylus petrinus SW Small.png[3].
  • Cymbospondylus's image is recorded as Cymbospondylus petrinus skull.jpg[4].
  • Cymbospondylus's image is recorded as Cymbospondylus buchseri.JPG[5].
  • Cymbospondylus's image is recorded as The Osteology of the Reptiles p257 Fig-178.png[6].
  • Cymbospondylus's instance of is recorded as fossil taxon[7].
  • Cymbospondylus's taxon rank is recorded as genus[8].
  • Cymbospondylus's parent taxon is recorded as Cymbospondylidae[9].
  • Cymbospondylus's location of discovery is recorded as Germanic Basin[10].
  • Cymbospondylus's location of discovery is recorded as Augusta Mountain Formation[11].
  • Cymbospondylus's taxon name is recorded as Cymbospondylus[12].
  • Cymbospondylus's Commons category is recorded as Cymbospondylus[13].
  • Cymbospondylus's start time is recorded as -240000000-00-00T00:00:00Z[14].
  • Cymbospondylus's end time is recorded as -210000000-00-00T00:00:00Z[15].
  • Cymbospondylus's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0cgrcg[16].
  • Cymbospondylus's BioLib taxon ID is recorded as 417336[17].
  • Cymbospondylus's Fossilworks taxon ID is recorded as 36550[18].
  • Cymbospondylus's GBIF taxon ID is recorded as 4818000[19].
  • Cymbospondylus's time period is recorded as Middle Triassic[20].
  • Cymbospondylus's IRMNG ID is recorded as 1060511[21].
  • Cymbospondylus's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 2777722064[22].
  • Cymbospondylus's taxon author citation is recorded as Leidy, 1868[23].
  • Cymbospondylus's Taxonomicon ID is recorded as 51215[24].
  • Cymbospondylus's size comparison diagram is recorded as Cymboscale.png[25].
  • Cymbospondylus's Open Tree of Life ID is recorded as 4946521[26].

Why It Matters

Cymbospondylus ranks in the top 3% of fossil_taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (178 views/month).[2] Cymbospondylus has Wikipedia articles in 20 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[27] Cymbospondylus is known by 5 alternative names across languages and contexts.[28]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . 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] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . Fossilworks. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . 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. [27] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [28] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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