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Plesiosauria

extinct order from the superorder of Sauropterygia
Taxon fossil_taxon Q269195
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Summary

Plesiosauria is a fossil taxon[1]. Plesiosauria ranks in the top 0.67% of fossil taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (6,606 views/month, #65 of 9,701).[2]

Key Facts

  • Taxon rank: order[3]
  • Parent taxon: Pistosauria[4]
  • Taxon name: Plesiosauria[5]
  • Commons category: Plesiosauria[6]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Plesiosauria[7], Category:Plesiosaurs[8]
  • Topic's main Wikimedia portal: Portail:Plésiosaures[9]
  • Described by source: Desktop Encyclopedic Dictionary[10]
  • Different from: Plesiosaurus[11]
  • Has list: list of plesiosaurs[12]

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Identifiers

Plesiosauria's Encyclopedia of Life ID is recorded as 46559660[13].

Why It Matters

Plesiosauria has Wikipedia articles in 27 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[14] Plesiosauria is known by 61 alternative names across languages and contexts.[15]

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. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [14] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [15] ↑ . 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. 18w ago · Paucabot · 2026-06-08 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Temporal range start → Q917293
    Temporal range end → Q338199
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Temporal range start: Late Triassic"
  2. 20w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-25 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Taxon rank → order
    Instance of → —
    Topic's main wikimedia portal → Portail:Plésiosaures
    Different from → Plesiosaurus
    + 6 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|2 */ National library of israel j9u id: 987007555700205171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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