Livyatan

extinct genus of whale
Taxon fossil_taxon Q131759
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Livyatan

Summary

Livyatan is a fossil taxon[1]. Livyatan ranks in the top 0.36% of fossil_taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,577 views/month, #35 of 9,701).[2]

Key Facts

  • Livyatan's image is recorded as Livyatan melvillei.jpg[3].
  • Livyatan's image is recorded as Livyatan skull.jpg[4].
  • Livyatan's image is recorded as Livyatan melvillei skull.jpg[5].
  • Livyatan's instance of is recorded as fossil taxon[6].
  • Livyatan's taxon rank is recorded as genus[7].
  • Leviathan is named after Livyatan[8].
  • Livyatan's parent taxon is recorded as Physeteroidea[9].
  • Livyatan's location of discovery is recorded as Pisco Formation[10].
  • Livyatan's location of discovery is recorded as Chile[11].
  • Livyatan's location of discovery is recorded as Australia[12].
  • Livyatan's location of discovery is recorded as Argentina[13].
  • Livyatan's location of discovery is recorded as South Africa[14].
  • Livyatan's location of discovery is recorded as Peru[15].
  • Livyatan's taxon name is recorded as Livyatan[16].
  • Livyatan's Commons category is recorded as Livyatan[17].
  • Livyatan's start time is recorded as -9900000-00-00T00:00:00Z[18].
  • Livyatan's end time is recorded as -8900000-00-00T00:00:00Z[19].
  • Livyatan's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0ch1_zn[20].
  • Livyatan's Encyclopedia of Life ID is recorded as 24188822[21].
  • Livyatan's Fossilworks taxon ID is recorded as 171201[22].
  • Livyatan's GBIF taxon ID is recorded as 3240234[23].
  • Livyatan's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Livyatan[24].
  • Livyatan's length is recorded as {'unit': 'Q11573', 'amount': '+17.5'}[25].
  • Livyatan's mass is recorded as {'unit': 'Q191118', 'amount': '+57'}[26].
  • Livyatan's IRMNG ID is recorded as 1278961[27].

Why It Matters

Livyatan ranks in the top 0.36% of fossil_taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,577 views/month, #35 of 9,701).[2] Livyatan has Wikipedia articles in 17 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] Livyatan is known by 20 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

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] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . doi.org. doi.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . Q82486. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . Fossilworks. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera. Retrieved . 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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