taphonomy

the study of decomposition and fossilization of biological material
Intangible academic_discipline Q596086
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taphonomy

Summary

taphonomy is an academic discipline[1]. taphonomy draws 174 Wikipedia views per month (academic_discipline category, ranking #189 of 1,010).[2]

Key Facts

  • taphonomy is credited with the discovery of Ivan Yefremov[3].
  • taphonomy's instance of is recorded as academic discipline[4].
  • taphonomy's GND ID is recorded as 4281043-7[5].
  • taphonomy's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh88003783[6].
  • taphonomy's subclass of is recorded as paleontology[7].
  • taphonomy's Commons category is recorded as Taphonomy[8].
  • taphonomy's BNCF Thesaurus ID is recorded as 77883[9].
  • taphonomy's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/019ttp[10].
  • taphonomy's NL CR AUT ID is recorded as ph137737[11].
  • taphonomy's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Taphonomy[12].
  • taphonomy's Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID is recorded as 300379641[13].
  • taphonomy's Dewey Decimal Classification is recorded as 560.41[14].
  • taphonomy's Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID is recorded as 0144753[15].
  • taphonomy's is the study of is recorded as fossilization[16].
  • taphonomy's Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID is recorded as 4184032[17].
  • taphonomy's Encyclopædia Universalis ID is recorded as taphonomie[18].
  • taphonomy's Quora topic ID is recorded as Taphonomy[19].
  • taphonomy's Zhihu topic ID is recorded as 20039860[20].
  • taphonomy's JSTOR topic ID is recorded as taphonomy[21].
  • taphonomy's PACTOLS thesaurus ID is recorded as pcrtjpqBTfmY7d[22].
  • taphonomy's Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID is recorded as tafonomi[23].
  • taphonomy's Elhuyar ZTH ID is recorded as 008227[24].
  • taphonomy's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 10277891[25].
  • taphonomy's National Library of Israel J9U ID is recorded as 987007544031605171[26].
  • taphonomy's National Historical Museums of Sweden ID is recorded as term/d2de2f9f-3dd6-4402-a73d-19cb6621c806[27].

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Works and Contributions

taphonomy is credited with the discovery of Ivan Yefremov[3].

Why It Matters

taphonomy draws 174 Wikipedia views per month (academic_discipline category, ranking #189 of 1,010).[2] taphonomy has Wikipedia articles in 22 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] taphonomy is known by 7 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

References

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

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] . serc.carleton.edu. serc.carleton.edu. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . Integrated Authority File. wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . Integrated Authority File. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . Quora. wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . National Library of Israel. wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . 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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