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Castorocauda, an Uncommon card
Castorocauda is an extinct, semi-aquatic, superficially otter-like genus of docodont mammaliaforms with one species, C. lutrasimilis.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Nature
- ATK
- 64
- DEF
- 63
- Power
- 127
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 22,000
Power 127 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 60 % of WikiCards cards.
Castorocauda quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Castorocauda card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
It was part of a Middle Jurassic explosive radiation of ______ moving into diverse habitats and niches.
Answer
Mammaliaformes. It was part of a Middle Jurassic explosive radiation of Mammaliaformes moving into diverse habitats and niches. From the Castorocauda article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Bowerbird. Bowerbird 70 · Castorocauda 64 · Abies grandis 61 · Western screech owl 58 ATK in WikiCards.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Bowerbird. Bowerbird 76,000 · Cancer pagurus 39,000 · Castorocauda 22,000 · Abies grandis 16,000 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.
- It is part of the Yanliao Biota, found in the Daohugou Beds of Inner Mongolia, China dating to the Middle to Late Jurassic.
- It was part of a Middle Jurassic explosive radiation of Mammaliaformes moving into diverse habitats and niches.
- Its discovery in 2006, along with the discovery of other unusual mammaliaforms, disproves the previous hypothesis of Mammaliaformes remaining evolutionarily stagnant until the extinction of the non-avian dinosaurs at the end of the Mesozoic.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Castorocauda article was read about 22,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 64 and blocks with 63: each hit it takes is cut by 25 %.
How to get Castorocauda
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Castorocauda (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Jonathan Chen, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.
