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paleobiology

science that studies the origin, evolution, way of life of animals and plants of past geological periods
Class type of: paleontology, biology Q1578310

Facts

6 properties
Instance of
branch of biology
Subclass of
paleontology, biology[2][3]
Part of
paleontology, biology[4][5]
Described by source
Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[6]
Partially coincident with
paleontology[7]
Practiced by
paleobiologist[8]
🏷️ Also known as
en palaeobiology en geobiology en paleobiology ar علم أحياء الحفريات ar علم حفريات الأحياء cs paleobiologie de Paläobiologie el γεωβιολογία el παλαιοβιολογία en-gb paleobiology en-gb geobiology es paleobiología fa دیرین‌زیست‌شناسی fi paleobiologia fr paléobiologie he פלאוביולוגיה hi पुराजैविकी hu paleobiológia id Paleobiologi ja じゅんこせいぶつがく
🔖 Identifiers · 29
Library of Congress authority ID
sh85097024
GND ID
4173106-2
OpenAlex ID
C88385403
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Trilobite Heinrich Harder.jpg ↗
BNCF Thesaurus ID
48121
Bibliothèque nationale de France ID
11978175d
Brockhaus Enzyklopädie online ID
paläobiologie
Dewey Decimal Classification
560
Freebase ID
/m/0dyprx
GitLab topic ID
palaeobiology
Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID
paleobiologia
Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID (former scheme)
0128987
Show all 29 identifiers +17
Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID
Paleobiologi
JSTOR topic ID (archived)
paleobiology
Microsoft Academic ID (discontinued)
88385403
NE.se ID
paleobiologi
NL CR AUT ID
ph115644
National Library of Israel J9U ID
987007558226305171
National Library of Spain SpMaBN ID (BNE v1.0)
XX5141727
Oxford Reference overview ID
20110803100301994
PSH ID
599
Proleksis enciklopedija ID
40347
Quora topic ID
Paleobiology, Palaeobiology
SVKKL authority ID
h0002509-paleobiologie
Topic's main category
Category:Paleobiology
Wolfram Language entity code
Entity["Concept", "Palaeobiology::2pqk9"]
YSA ID
Y185661
YSO ID
26164
Yale LUX ID
concept/283fe149-3949-4a8e-80f7-0a313114e2f0

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🔗 Connections
← Field of work 17
Franz Nopcsa von Felső-Szilvás, Zofia Kielan-Jaworowska, Simon Conway Morris, Storrs L. Olson, Charles R. Pellegrino, Jeremy B. C. Jackson, J. William Schopf, Patricia Vickers-Rich +9 more
Subtypes 4
paleobotany, paleozoology, paleoecology, paleovirology
Has these parts 2
paleozoology, paleovirology
Part of 2
biology, paleontology
Subclass of 2
biology, paleontology
Examples 1
paleobiogeography
Partially coincident with 1
paleontology
Practiced by 1
paleobiologist
Topic's main category 1
Category:Paleobiology
← Category's main topic 1
Category:Paleobiology
← Facet of 1
fossil preparation
← Field of this occupation 1
paleobiologist
← Main subject 1
Historical Biology
← Partially coincident with 1
paleontology
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Summary

paleobiology is a branch of biology[1].

Related Entities

biology fossil preparation paleobotany paleontology

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  1. [2] ↑ . Integrated Authority File. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . Integrated Authority File. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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  1. 20w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    SVKKL authority ID → h0002509-paleobiologie
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ SVKKL authority ID: h0002509-paleobiologie, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259493|batch #259493]]"
  2. 24w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Part of → paleontology, biology
    Instance of → —
    Aliases → —
    Subclass of → paleontology, biology
    + 7 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|8 */ YSO ID: 26164, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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