Ediacaran

third and final period of the Neoproterozoic Era
Thing period Q188654
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Ediacaran

Summary

Ediacaran is a period[1]. Ediacaran draws 878 Wikipedia views per month (period category, ranking #12 of 34).[2]

Key Facts

  • Ediacaran's image is recorded as Mollweide Paleographic Map of Earth, 600 Ma (Ediacaran Period).png[3].
  • Ediacaran's image is recorded as Ediacaran-GSSP-IMGP6652-.jpg[4].
  • Ediacaran's instance of is recorded as period[5].
  • Ediacaran's instance of is recorded as system[6].
  • Ediacara Hills is named after Ediacaran[7].
  • Ediacaran's follows is recorded as Cryogenian[8].
  • Ediacaran's followed by is recorded as Cambrian[9].
  • Ediacaran's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh2019103472[10].
  • Ediacaran's part of is recorded as Neoproterozoic[11].
  • Ediacaran's part of is recorded as ICS Standard Global Chronostratigraphic (Geochronologic) Scale[12].
  • Ediacaran's Commons category is recorded as Ediacaran[13].
  • Ediacaran's sRGB color hex triplet is recorded as FED96A[14].
  • Ediacaran's start time is recorded as -635000000-00-00T00:00:00Z[15].
  • Ediacaran's end time is recorded as -538800000-00-00T00:00:00Z[16].
  • Ediacaran's coordinate location is recorded as {'lat': -31.3314, 'lon': 138.6334}[17].
  • Ediacaran's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/02jrw[18].
  • Ediacaran's IPA transcription is recorded as /ˌiːdiˈækərən/[19].
  • Ediacaran's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Ediacaran[20].
  • Ediacaran's replaces is recorded as Vendian[21].
  • Ediacaran's different from is recorded as Vendian[22].
  • Ediacaran's BabelNet ID is recorded as 03824352n[23].
  • Ediacaran's type locality is recorded as GSSP for the base of the Ediacaran[24].
  • Ediacaran's JSTOR topic ID is recorded as ediacaran-period[25].
  • Ediacaran's Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID is recorded as ediacarium[26].
  • Ediacaran's Encyclopedia of Modern Ukraine ID is recorded as 33431[27].

Why It Matters

Ediacaran draws 878 Wikipedia views per month (period category, ranking #12 of 34).[2] Ediacaran has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] Ediacaran is known by 64 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . zenodo.org. zenodo.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . International Chronostratigraphic Chart 2023/09. wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . International Chronostratigraphic Chart 2023/09. wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . International Chronostratigraphic Chart 2023/09. wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . International Chronostratigraphic Chart 2023/09. wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . International Chronostratigraphic Chart 2023/09. wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . stratigraphy.org. stratigraphy.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . International Chronostratigraphic Chart 2023/09. wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . International Chronostratigraphic Chart 2023/09. wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . stratigraphy.org. stratigraphy.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . BabelNet. wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

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

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [29] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 20d ago · 99of9 · 2026-05-01 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Followed by Cambrian
    Type locality (geology) GSSP for the base of the Ediacaran
    Named after
    Replaces
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