fossil

preserved remains or traces of organisms from a past geological age
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fossil

Summary

fossil ranks in the top 0.97% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (13,952 views/month, #754 of 77,819).[1]

Key Facts

  • fossil is a type of natural physical object[2].
  • fossil's Commons category is recorded as Fossils[3].
  • fossil's has cause is recorded as fossilization[4].
  • fossil's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Fossils[5].
  • fossil's Commons gallery is recorded as Fossil[6].
  • fossil's described by source is recorded as New Encyclopedic Dictionary[7].
  • fossil's described by source is recorded as Encyclopedia of Armenian Nature[8].
  • fossil's described by source is recorded as Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[9].
  • fossil's described by source is recorded as The Encyclopedia Americana[10].
  • fossil's described by source is recorded as New International Encyclopedia[11].
  • fossil's described by source is recorded as The New Student's Reference Work[12].
  • fossil's topic has template is recorded as Template:Infobox fossil[13].
  • fossil's main Wikidata property is recorded as P1137[14].
  • fossil's different from is recorded as fossil taxon[15].
  • fossil's different from is recorded as archaeological find[16].
  • fossil's different from is recorded as pseudofossil[17].
  • fossil's fabrication method is recorded as fossilization[18].
  • fossil's studied by is recorded as paleontology[19].
  • fossil's studied by is recorded as palaeoxylology[20].
  • fossil's has part is recorded as fossil record[21].
  • fossil's exact match is recorded as http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_00002164[22].
  • fossil's permanent duplicated item is recorded as Q55744002[23].
  • fossil's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[24].

Body

Definition and Type

fossil is a type of natural physical object[2].

Why It Matters

fossil ranks in the top 0.97% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (13,952 views/month, #754 of 77,819).[1] fossil has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[25] fossil is known by 142 alternative names across languages and contexts.[26]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [25] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [26] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

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. 16d ago · Tymewalk · 2026-09-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14901 → fossils
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/55023|batch #55023]]: Encyclopedia of Alabama update - add values for P14901 based on existing values of P6010"
  2. 10w ago · Kirilloparma · 2026-07-25 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14470 → Objects/Fossil
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ [[Property:P14470]]: Objects/Fossil, Adding missing [[P:P14470|P14470]] and [[P:P9675|P9675]] qualifier based on [[P:P5247|P5247]]"
  3. 13w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-07-05 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → fossil, fossils
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ [[Property:P13772]]: fossil, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289931144|fossil (#289931144)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's tag]] #mix'n'mat"
  4. 16w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → 0221642-fosilie
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ [[Property:P9322]]: 0221642-fosilie, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259495|batch #259495]]"
  5. 19w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Local thumb → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|13 */ [[Property:P2347]]: 1162, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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