Dickinsonia

extinct genus of early animals
Taxon fossil_taxon Q292078
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Dickinsonia

Summary

Dickinsonia is a fossil taxon[1]. Dickinsonia ranks in the top 1% of fossil_taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (525 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Dickinsonia's image is recorded as Dickinsonia species.png[3].
  • Dickinsonia's instance of is recorded as fossil taxon[4].
  • Dickinsonia's taxon rank is recorded as genus[5].
  • Ben Dickinson is named after Dickinsonia[6].
  • Dickinsonia's parent taxon is recorded as Dickinsoniidae[7].
  • Dickinsonia's taxon name is recorded as Dickinsonia[8].
  • Dickinsonia's Commons category is recorded as Dickinsonia[9].
  • Dickinsonia's taxonomic type is recorded as Dickinsonia costata[10].
  • Dickinsonia's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/01llg_[11].
  • Dickinsonia's Fossilworks taxon ID is recorded as 4717[12].
  • Dickinsonia's GBIF taxon ID is recorded as 7345518[13].
  • Dickinsonia's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Dickinsonia[14].
  • Dickinsonia's taxon synonym is recorded as Papilionata[15].
  • Dickinsonia's taxon synonym is recorded as Vendomia[16].
  • Dickinsonia's time period is recorded as Ediacaran[17].
  • Dickinsonia's IRMNG ID is recorded as 1067237[18].
  • Dickinsonia's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 2779569475[19].
  • Dickinsonia's Open Tree of Life ID is recorded as 6372035[20].

Why It Matters

Dickinsonia ranks in the top 1% of fossil_taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (525 views/month).[2] Dickinsonia has Wikipedia articles in 22 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[21] Dickinsonia is known by 8 alternative names across languages and contexts.[22]

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] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . Species of Dickinsonia Sprigg from the Ediacaran of South Australia. wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . Small Vendian transversely Articulated fossils. wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . 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. [21] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [22] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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