Scelidosaurus

genus of ornithischian dinosaurs
Taxon fossil_taxon Q18862
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Scelidosaurus

Summary

Scelidosaurus is a fossil taxon[1]. Scelidosaurus ranks in the top 4% of fossil_taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (61 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Scelidosaurus's image is recorded as Scelidosaurus harrisonii.png[3].
  • Scelidosaurus's image is recorded as Scelidosaurus harrisonii (1).jpg[4].
  • Scelidosaurus's instance of is recorded as fossil taxon[5].
  • Scelidosaurus's taxon rank is recorded as genus[6].
  • Scelidosaurus's parent taxon is recorded as Thyreophora[7].
  • Scelidosaurus's location of discovery is recorded as England[8].
  • Scelidosaurus's taxon name is recorded as Scelidosaurus[9].
  • Scelidosaurus's subclass of is recorded as dinosaur[10].
  • Scelidosaurus's Commons category is recorded as Scelidosaurus[11].
  • Scelidosaurus's start time is recorded as -196500000-00-00T00:00:00Z[12].
  • Scelidosaurus's end time is recorded as -183000000-00-00T00:00:00Z[13].
  • Scelidosaurus's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/07g7xl[14].
  • Scelidosaurus's Encyclopedia of Life ID is recorded as 52571895[15].
  • Scelidosaurus's Fossilworks taxon ID is recorded as 38801[16].
  • Scelidosaurus's GBIF taxon ID is recorded as 4823038[17].
  • Scelidosaurus's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Scelidosaurus[18].
  • Scelidosaurus's Commons gallery is recorded as Scelidosaurus[19].
  • Scelidosaurus's main food source is recorded as herbivore[20].
  • Scelidosaurus's length is recorded as {'unit': 'Q11573', 'amount': '+4.0'}[21].
  • Scelidosaurus's time period is recorded as Early Jurassic[22].
  • Scelidosaurus's Wolfram Language entity code is recorded as Entity["Dinosaur", "Genus:Scelidosaurus"][23].
  • Scelidosaurus's IRMNG ID is recorded as 1097015[24].
  • Scelidosaurus's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 2779566473[25].
  • Scelidosaurus's size comparison diagram is recorded as Scelidosaurus Size Comparison by PaleoGeek.svg[26].
  • Scelidosaurus's Open Tree of Life ID is recorded as 4128875[27].

Why It Matters

Scelidosaurus ranks in the top 4% of fossil_taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (61 views/month).[2] Scelidosaurus has Wikipedia articles in 22 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] Scelidosaurus is known by 21 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

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] . nhm.ac.uk. nhm.ac.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . Fossilworks. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . nhm.ac.uk. nhm.ac.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . nhm.ac.uk. nhm.ac.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . nhm.ac.uk. nhm.ac.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . Open Tree of Life reference taxonomy version 3.6. Retrieved . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [29] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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