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Malawisaurus

extinct genus of sauropod dinosaurs (Sauropoda)
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Summary

Malawisaurus is a fossil taxon[1]. Malawisaurus ranks in the top 4% of fossil taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (324 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Taxon rank: genus[3]
  • Parent taxon: Titanosauria[4], Titanosauridae[5]
  • Location of discovery: Malawi[6]
  • Taxon name: Malawisaurus[7]
  • Commons category: Malawisaurus[8]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Malawisaurus[9]
  • Main food source: herbivore[10]
  • Taxon common name: Malawisaurus ("Malawi lizard")[11]
  • Length: 9.0 m[12]
  • Time period: Early Cretaceous[13]
  • Taxon author citation: Jacobs et al., 1993[14]

Body

Identifiers

Malawisaurus's Encyclopedia of Life ID is recorded as 4658486[15]. Malawisaurus's GBIF taxon ID is recorded as 4822756[16].

Why It Matters

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

Related Entities

Malawi

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] ↑ . Retrieved . 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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  1. 4d ago · Rebot bot · 2026-10-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → —
    Topic's main category → Category:Malawisaurus
    Time period → Early Cretaceous
    Instance of → fossil taxon
    + 8 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Taxon author citation: Jacobs et al., 1993, Bot: importing authority taxon citation from Catalan Wikipedia"
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