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Brontosaurus, a Rare card
Brontosaurus is a genus of herbivorous sauropod dinosaur that lived in present-day United States during the Late Jurassic period.
- Rarity
- Rare
- Domain
- Nature
- ATK
- 85
- DEF
- 97
- Power
- 182
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 220,000
Power 182 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 95 % of WikiCards cards.
Brontosaurus quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Brontosaurus card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
In ______ years, two more species of Brontosaurus were named: B. parvus in 1902 and B. yahnahpin in 1994.
Answer
subsequent. In subsequent years, two more species of Brontosaurus were named: B. parvus in 1902 and B. yahnahpin in 1994. From the Brontosaurus article on Wikipedia.
In which decade?
It was described by American paleontologist Othniel Charles Marsh in ____, the type species being dubbed B. excelsus, based on a partial skeleton lacking a skull found in Como Bluff, Wyoming.
Answer
1870s. It was described by American paleontologist Othniel Charles Marsh in 1879, the type species being dubbed B. excelsus, based on a partial skeleton lacking a skull found in Como Bluff, Wyoming. From the Brontosaurus article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Lyndon LaRouche. Lyndon LaRouche 94 · Baleen whale 88 · Brontosaurus 85 · Australian magpie 82 ATK in WikiCards.
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.
- It was described by American paleontologist Othniel Charles Marsh in 1879, the type species being dubbed B. excelsus, based on a partial skeleton lacking a skull found in Como Bluff, Wyoming.
- In subsequent years, two more species of Brontosaurus were named: B. parvus in 1902 and B. yahnahpin in 1994.
- Brontosaurus lived about 156 to 146 million years ago during the Kimmeridgian and Tithonian ages in the Morrison Formation of what is now Utah and Wyoming.
Why it is Rare
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Brontosaurus article was read about 220,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 85 and blocks with 97: each hit it takes is cut by 39 %.
How to get Brontosaurus
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Text : Wikipedia, Brontosaurus (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Matthew Bellemare, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons.
