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Ichthyosauria

order of Ichthyopterygia
Taxon fossil_taxon Q194515
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Summary

Ichthyosauria is a fossil taxon[1]. Ichthyosauria ranks in the top 0.65% of fossil taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (6,537 views/month, #63 of 9,701).[2]

Key Facts

  • Taxon rank: order[3]
  • Parent taxon: Eoichthyosauria[4]
  • Taxon name: Ichthyosauria[5]
  • Subclass of: Sauropterygia[6]
  • Commons category: Ichthyosauria[7]
  • Start time: -250000000-00-00T00:00:00Z[8]
  • End time: -90000000-00-00T00:00:00Z[9]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Ichthyosaurs[10]
  • Described by source: Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[11], Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[12], Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 4[13]
  • Has list: list of ichthyosaurs[14]

Body

Identifiers

Ichthyosauria's Encyclopedia of Life ID is recorded as 4532369[15].

Why It Matters

Ichthyosauria has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[16] Ichthyosauria is known by 81 alternative names across languages and contexts.[17]

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. [15] ↑ . Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [16] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [17] ↑ . 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. 12w ago · Andre Engels · 2026-07-21 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Online nevada encyclopedia id → ichthyosaurs
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Online nevada encyclopedia id: ichthyosaurs, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/83362315|Ichthyosaurs (#83362315)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/3005|Onlin"
  2. 20w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-24 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Parent taxon → Eoichthyosauria
    Start time → —
    Taxon rank → order
    Instance of → fossil taxon
    + 12 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|2 */ National library of israel j9u id: 987007538535905171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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