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Cretoxyrhina, an Uncommon card
Cretoxyrhina is an extinct genus of large mackerel shark that lived about 107 to 73 million years ago during the late Albian to late Campanian of the Late Cretaceous.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Nature
- ATK
- 90
- DEF
- 99
- Power
- 189
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 41,000
Power 189 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 95 % of WikiCards cards.
Cretoxyrhina quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Cretoxyrhina card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Measuring up to 8 m in length and ______ around 5,000 kg, Cretoxyrhina was one of the largest sharks of its time.
Answer
weighing. Measuring up to 8 m in length and weighing around 5,000 kg, Cretoxyrhina was one of the largest sharks of its time. From the Cretoxyrhina article on Wikipedia.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Sea otter. Sea otter 350,000 · Eurasian eagle-owl 240,000 · Camarasaurus 66,000 · Cretoxyrhina 41,000 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 type species, C. mantelli, is more commonly referred to as the Ginsu shark, first popularized in reference to the Ginsu knife, as its theoretical feeding mechanism is often compared with the "slicing and dicing" when one uses the knife.
- Cretoxyrhina is traditionally classified as the likely sole member of the family Cretoxyrhinidae but other taxonomic placements have been proposed, such as within the Alopiidae and Lamnidae.
- Measuring up to 8 m in length and weighing around 5,000 kg, Cretoxyrhina was one of the largest sharks of its time.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Cretoxyrhina article was read about 41,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 90 and blocks with 99: each hit it takes is cut by 40 %.
How to get Cretoxyrhina
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Cretoxyrhina (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : User:A,Ocram, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
