Hesperocyon

extinct genus of mammals
Taxon fossil_taxon Q1947861
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Hesperocyon

Summary

Hesperocyon is a fossil taxon[1]. Hesperocyon ranks in the top 3% of fossil_taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (98 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Hesperocyon's image is recorded as Hesperocyon Gregarius.jpg[3].
  • Hesperocyon's image is recorded as Hesperocyon skeleton.jpg[4].
  • Hesperocyon's instance of is recorded as fossil taxon[5].
  • Hesperocyon's taxon rank is recorded as genus[6].
  • Hesperocyon's parent taxon is recorded as Hesperocyoninae[7].
  • Hesperocyon's taxon name is recorded as Hesperocyon[8].
  • Hesperocyon's Commons category is recorded as Hesperocyon[9].
  • Hesperocyon's taxonomic type is recorded as Canis gregarius[10].
  • Hesperocyon's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0dwg_k[11].
  • Hesperocyon's Fossilworks taxon ID is recorded as 41217[12].
  • Hesperocyon's GBIF taxon ID is recorded as 4833550[13].
  • Hesperocyon's IRMNG ID is recorded as 1027026[14].
  • Hesperocyon's Fandom article ID is recorded as prehistoric-wiki:Hesperocyon[15].
  • Hesperocyon's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 2778870329[16].
  • Hesperocyon's Open Tree of Life ID is recorded as 3612553[17].
  • Hesperocyon's Paleobiology Database taxon ID is recorded as 41217[18].
  • Hesperocyon's Yale LUX ID is recorded as concept/e38e9bc4-6885-4fb7-aee7-293cdec9c680[19].

Why It Matters

Hesperocyon ranks in the top 3% of fossil_taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (98 views/month).[2] Hesperocyon has Wikipedia articles in 13 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[20]

References

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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] . Fossilworks. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . Open Tree of Life reference taxonomy version 3.6. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

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

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [20] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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