Megalosaurus

extinct genus of theropod dinosaurs
Taxon fossil_taxon Q131056
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Megalosaurus

Summary

Megalosaurus is a fossil taxon[1]. Megalosaurus ranks in the top 0.7% of fossil_taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (816 views/month, #68 of 9,701).[2]

Key Facts

  • Megalosaurus's image is recorded as Megalosaurus 0289.JPG[3].
  • Megalosaurus's image is recorded as Megalosaurus display.JPG[4].
  • Megalosaurus's image is recorded as Megalosaurus dinosaur.png[5].
  • Megalosaurus's image is recorded as Megalosaurus 5.svg[6].
  • Megalosaurus's image is recorded as The first discovery of dinosaurs-Dinosaurisle.jpg[7].
  • Megalosaurus's instance of is recorded as fossil taxon[8].
  • Megalosaurus's taxon rank is recorded as genus[9].
  • Megalosaurus's parent taxon is recorded as Megalosaurinae[10].
  • Megalosaurus's location of discovery is recorded as Taynton Limestone Formation[11].
  • Megalosaurus's location of discovery is recorded as England[12].
  • Megalosaurus's taxon name is recorded as Megalosaurus[13].
  • Megalosaurus's Commons category is recorded as Megalosaurus[14].
  • Megalosaurus's start time is recorded as -166000000-00-00T00:00:00Z[15].
  • Megalosaurus's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/02kbfj[16].
  • Megalosaurus's Encyclopedia of Life ID is recorded as 47345807[17].
  • Megalosaurus's Fossilworks taxon ID is recorded as 38583[18].
  • Megalosaurus's GBIF taxon ID is recorded as 4822664[19].
  • Megalosaurus's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Megalosaurus[20].
  • Megalosaurus's main food source is recorded as carnivore[21].
  • Megalosaurus's Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID is recorded as 0122515[22].
  • Megalosaurus's described by source is recorded as Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[23].
  • Megalosaurus's described by source is recorded as Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[24].
  • Megalosaurus's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as animal/Megalosaurus[25].
  • Megalosaurus's taxon common name is recorded as {'lang': 'ca', 'text': 'Megalosaure'}[26].
  • Megalosaurus's taxon common name is recorded as {'lang': 'fa', 'text': 'مگالوسور'}[27].

Why It Matters

Megalosaurus ranks in the top 0.7% of fossil_taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (816 views/month, #68 of 9,701).[2] Megalosaurus has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] Megalosaurus is known by 17 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] . nhm.ac.uk. nhm.ac.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . Fossilworks. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . nhm.ac.uk. nhm.ac.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . 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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