Gryphaea

Summary

Gryphaea is a fossil taxon^[1]. Gryphaea ranks in the top 3% of fossil_taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (146 views/month).^[2]

Key Facts

• Gryphaea's image is recorded as Gryphaea arcuata fossil oyster (Blue Lias, Lower Jurassic; coastal cliffs near Lyme Regis, far-western Dorset County, southwestern England) 1 (15206675956).jpg^[3].
• Gryphaea's instance of is recorded as fossil taxon^[4].
• Gryphaea's taxon rank is recorded as genus^[5].
• Gryphaea's parent taxon is recorded as Gryphaeidae^[6].
• Gryphaea's taxon name is recorded as Gryphaea^[7].
• Gryphaea's Commons category is recorded as Gryphaea^[8].
• Gryphaea's start time is recorded as -199600000-00-00T00:00:00Z^[9].
• Gryphaea's end time is recorded as -33900000-00-00T00:00:00Z^[10].
• Gryphaea's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/01j1q9^[11].
• Gryphaea's Fossilworks taxon ID is recorded as 16691^[12].
• Gryphaea's GBIF taxon ID is recorded as 4595513^[13].
• Gryphaea's WoRMS-ID for taxa is recorded as 526319^[14].
• Gryphaea's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary^[15].
• Gryphaea's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as animal/Gryphaea^[16].
• Gryphaea's ZooBank ID for name or act is recorded as 4F00D862-04F2-4B67-8B34-45FA8C1A8AC8^[17].
• Gryphaea's Plazi ID is recorded as CEA08729-7C7E-4C9B-3200-12DE0D9F137C^[18].
• Gryphaea's iNaturalist taxon ID is recorded as 480150^[19].
• Gryphaea's IRMNG ID is recorded as 1012144^[20].
• Gryphaea's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 2778824930^[21].
• Gryphaea's Open Tree of Life ID is recorded as 2854790^[22].
• Gryphaea's Catalogue of Life ID is recorded as 7P4LC^[23].
• Gryphaea's Yale LUX ID is recorded as concept/917fb6f4-bee5-41f5-860b-7b601c26edfa^[24].

Why It Matters

Gryphaea ranks in the top 3% of fossil_taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (146 views/month).^[2] Gryphaea has Wikipedia articles in 9 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[25]