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Antarctosaurus

genus of reptiles (fossil)
Taxon fossil_taxon Q131738
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Summary

Antarctosaurus is a fossil taxon[1]. Antarctosaurus ranks in the top 4% of fossil taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (491 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Taxon rank: genus[3]
  • Parent taxon: Lithostrotia[4], Colossosauria[5]
  • Location of discovery: Argentina[6]
  • Taxon name: Antarctosaurus[7]
  • Commons category: Antarctosaurus[8]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Antarctosaurus[9]
  • Main food source: herbivore[10]
  • Taxon common name: Antarctosaurus ("southern lizard")[11]
  • Length: 18.0 m[12]
  • Time period: Late Cretaceous[13]
  • Taxon author citation: Olshevsky, 1978[14]

Body

Identifiers

Antarctosaurus's Encyclopedia of Life ID is recorded as 4658393[15]. Antarctosaurus's GBIF taxon ID is recorded as 4822764[16].

Why It Matters

Antarctosaurus has Wikipedia articles in 21 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[17] Antarctosaurus is known by 24 alternative names across languages and contexts.[18]

Related Entities

Argentina Rachel Roberts

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . nhm.ac.uk. nhm.ac.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [15] ↑ . Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  8. [16] ↑ . Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  9. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [10] ↑ . nhm.ac.uk. nhm.ac.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  11. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [12] ↑ . nhm.ac.uk. nhm.ac.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  13. [13] ↑ . nhm.ac.uk. nhm.ac.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  14. [14] ↑ . ca.wikipedia.org. Retrieved . ca.wikipedia.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [17] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [18] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 5d ago · Rebot bot · 2026-10-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikipedia languages → ['ar', 'az', 'ca', 'cs', 'de', 'en', 'es', 'fa', 'fr', 'he', 'hu', 'id', 'it', '
    Taxon author citation → Olshevsky, 1978
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Taxon author citation: Olshevsky, 1978, Bot: importing taxonomic author citation from Catalan Wikipedia - [[Wikidata:Requests for permissions/Bot/Rebot 3]]"
  2. 15w ago · Andre Engels · 2026-07-01 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Main food source → herbivore
    Parent taxon → Lithostrotia, Colossosauria
    Taxon rank → genus
    Length → {'unit': 'Q11573', 'amount': '+18.0'}
    + 7 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Paleobiology database taxon id: 38685, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/168993498|Antarctosaurus (#168993498)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/6462|Paleobi"
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