Pliosauridae

extinct species of plesiosaurs (plesiosauria)
Taxon fossil_taxon Q930029
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Pliosauridae

Summary

Pliosauridae is a fossil taxon[1]. Pliosauridae ranks in the top 4% of fossil_taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (145 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Pliosauridae's image is recorded as Pliosaur, Rhomaleosaurus camptoni, Natural History Museum, London.JPG[3].
  • Pliosauridae's instance of is recorded as fossil taxon[4].
  • Pliosauridae's taxon rank is recorded as family[5].
  • Pliosauridae's parent taxon is recorded as Pliosauroidea[6].
  • Pliosauridae's taxon name is recorded as Pliosauridae[7].
  • Pliosauridae's Commons category is recorded as Pliosauridae[8].
  • Pliosauridae's taxonomic type is recorded as Makhaira[9].
  • Pliosauridae's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0hn8rp8[10].
  • Pliosauridae's Encyclopedia of Life ID is recorded as 4532437[11].
  • Pliosauridae's BioLib taxon ID is recorded as 18598[12].
  • Pliosauridae's Fossilworks taxon ID is recorded as 38178[13].
  • Pliosauridae's GBIF taxon ID is recorded as 4823613[14].
  • Pliosauridae's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Pliosauridae[15].
  • Pliosauridae's iNaturalist taxon ID is recorded as 546669[16].
  • Pliosauridae's IRMNG ID is recorded as 117169[17].
  • Pliosauridae's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 2776881415[18].
  • Pliosauridae's Taxonomicon ID is recorded as 50494[19].
  • Pliosauridae's Open Tree of Life ID is recorded as 4127174[20].
  • Pliosauridae's Yale LUX ID is recorded as concept/4f06389c-b015-411a-bf16-9548534f36c3[21].

Why It Matters

Pliosauridae ranks in the top 4% of fossil_taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (145 views/month).[2] Pliosauridae has Wikipedia articles in 15 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[22] Pliosauridae is known by 10 alternative names across languages and contexts.[23]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
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  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . Q82486. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . Fossilworks. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . Open Tree of Life reference taxonomy version 3.6. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

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

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [22] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [23] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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