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Cooksonia, an Uncommon card
Cooksonia is an extinct group of primitive land plants, treated as a genus, although probably not monophyletic.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Nature
- ATK
- 65
- DEF
- 49
- Power
- 114
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 35,000
Power 114 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 55 % of WikiCards cards.
Cooksonia quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Cooksonia card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
While Cooksonia fossils are ______ globally, most type specimens come from Britain, where they were first discovered in 1937.
Answer
distributed. While Cooksonia fossils are distributed globally, most type specimens come from Britain, where they were first discovered in 1937. From the Cooksonia article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Bifidobacterium. Bifidobacterium 69 · Cooksonia 65 · Atlantic canary 59 · Beaucarnea recurvata 55 ATK in WikiCards.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Tyto. Tyto 56,000 · Cooksonia 35,000 · Mimivirus 26,000 · Viral replication 20,000 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.
- The earliest Cooksonia date from the middle of the Silurian, the group continued to be an important component of the flora until the end of the Early Devonian, a total time span of 433 to 393 million years ago.
- While Cooksonia fossils are distributed globally, most type specimens come from Britain, where they were first discovered in 1937.
- Cooksonia includes the oldest known plant to have a stem with vascular tissue and is thus a transitional form between the primitive non-vascular bryophytes and the vascular plants.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Cooksonia article was read about 35,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 65 and blocks with 49: each hit it takes is cut by 20 %.
How to get Cooksonia
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Cooksonia (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Jonathan Chen, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.
