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Basilemys, a Common card
Basilemys is a large, terrestrial nanhsiungchelyid turtle from the Upper Cretaceous of North and Central America.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- Nature
- ATK
- 61
- DEF
- 54
- Power
- 115
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 4,400
Power 115 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 55 % of WikiCards cards.
Basilemys quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Basilemys card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Amongst nanhsiungchelyids, Basilemys is considered to be most similar to ______.
Answer
tortoises. Amongst nanhsiungchelyids, Basilemys is considered to be most similar to tortoises. From the Basilemys article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Albert Costa. Albert Costa 77 · Ceprano Man 68 · Amsterdamse Bos 65 · Basilemys 61 ATK in WikiCards.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Miljacka. Miljacka 8,400 · Amsterdamse Bos 6,600 · Basilemys 4,400 · Hutovo Blato 2,800 Wikipedia reads over a year.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- Most fossils of Basilemys have been found in rocks dating to the Campanian and Maastrichtian subdivisions of the Late Cretaceous and is considered to be the largest terrestrial turtle of its time.
- In an analysis made by Sukhanov et al. on a nansiunghelyid turtle from the Upper Cretaceous of Mongolia, it was demonstrated that Asian nanhsiungchelyids gave rise to the North American nanhsiungchelyids.
- Amongst nanhsiungchelyids, Basilemys is considered to be most similar to tortoises.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Basilemys article was read about 4,400 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 61 and blocks with 54: each hit it takes is cut by 22 %.
How to get Basilemys
Open packs. Each pack holds five cards drawn from real Wikipedia articles, the rarest last, and the fifth card is always Rare or better. The odds are shown in the game. A free pack arrives every hour and two can wait, and the Coins you win in duels buy more packs.
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The cards just above and just below Basilemys in the power ranking, all domains together.
- Axel Fredrik CronstedtCommon · History · ATK 59 DEF 56
- Joseph PetzvalCommon · Science · ATK 68 DEF 47
- Martin Conway, 1st Baron Conway of AllingtonCommon · History · ATK 66 DEF 49
- Georg Eberhard RumphiusCommon · Science · ATK 64 DEF 51
- Haw River, North CarolinaCommon · Society · ATK 63 DEF 52
- Albert CostaCommon · Society · ATK 77 DEF 38
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Basilemys (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Willem van Valkenburg, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons.
