Plesiosauroidea

extinct superfamily of plesiosaurs (Plesiosauria)
Taxon fossil_taxon Q1619550
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Plesiosauroidea

Summary

Plesiosauroidea is a fossil taxon[1]. Plesiosauroidea ranks in the top 3% of fossil_taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (93 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Plesiosauroidea's image is recorded as Plesiosaurus 3DB.jpg[3].
  • Plesiosauroidea's instance of is recorded as fossil taxon[4].
  • Plesiosauroidea's taxon rank is recorded as superfamily[5].
  • Plesiosauroidea's parent taxon is recorded as Neoplesiosauria[6].
  • Plesiosauroidea's taxon name is recorded as Plesiosauroidea[7].
  • Plesiosauroidea's Commons category is recorded as Plesiosauria[8].
  • Plesiosauroidea's start time is recorded as -210000000-00-00T00:00:00Z[9].
  • Plesiosauroidea's end time is recorded as -66000000-00-00T00:00:00Z[10].
  • Plesiosauroidea's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/018ydg[11].
  • Plesiosauroidea's Encyclopedia of Life ID is recorded as 46559661[12].
  • Plesiosauroidea's Fossilworks taxon ID is recorded as 38172[13].
  • Plesiosauroidea's WoRMS-ID for taxa is recorded as 380399[14].
  • Plesiosauroidea's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Plesiosauroids[15].
  • Plesiosauroidea's different from is recorded as Pliosauroidea[16].
  • Plesiosauroidea's Encyclopædia Universalis ID is recorded as plesiosaures[17].
  • Plesiosauroidea's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 2778775248[18].
  • Plesiosauroidea's Taxonomicon ID is recorded as 646617[19].
  • Plesiosauroidea's Open Tree of Life ID is recorded as 5758900[20].

Why It Matters

Plesiosauroidea ranks in the top 3% of fossil_taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (93 views/month).[2] Plesiosauroidea has Wikipedia articles in 13 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[21] Plesiosauroidea is known by 16 alternative names across languages and contexts.[22]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . Paleobiology Database. wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . Fossilworks. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . Open Tree of Life reference taxonomy version 3.6. Retrieved . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

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

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [21] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [22] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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