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Elasmosaurus, an Uncommon card
Elasmosaurus is a genus of plesiosaur that lived in North America during the Campanian stage of the Late Cretaceous period, at about 80.6 to 77 million years ago.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Nature
- ATK
- 87
- DEF
- 97
- Power
- 184
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 68,000
Power 184 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 95 % of WikiCards cards.
Elasmosaurus quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Elasmosaurus card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
The generic name means "thin-plate reptile", and the ______ name means "flat-tailed".
Answer
specific. The generic name means "thin-plate reptile", and the specific name means "flat-tailed". From the Elasmosaurus article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Kepler space telescope. Kepler space telescope 94 · Sustainable agriculture 91 · Elasmosaurus 87 · Magellan expedition 84 ATK in WikiCards.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Everglades. Everglades 220,000 · Camouflage 120,000 · Elasmosaurus 68,000 · Sustainable agriculture 52,000 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 first specimen was discovered in 1867 near Fort Wallace, Kansas, US, and was sent to the American paleontologist Edward Drinker Cope, who named it E. platyurus in 1868.
- The generic name means "thin-plate reptile", and the specific name means "flat-tailed".
- Cope originally reconstructed the skeleton of Elasmosaurus with the skull at the end of the tail, an error which was made light of by the paleontologist Othniel Charles Marsh, and became part of their "Bone Wars" rivalry.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Elasmosaurus article was read about 68,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 87 and blocks with 97: each hit it takes is cut by 39 %.
How to get Elasmosaurus
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Elasmosaurus (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : MCDinosaurhunter, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.
