Principle of faunal succession

Principle of faunal succession - fossils succeed each other vertically in a specific, reliable order that can be identified over wide horizontal distances. Article “Principle of faunal succession” in English Wikipedia has 13.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 3 references and 2 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 0.7 points.

This article has the best quality in Hebrew Wikipedia. However, this article is the most popular in English version.

Since the creation of article “Principle of faunal succession”, its content was written by 64 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 165 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 83 times in English Wikipedia and cited 256 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #28687 in November 2006
• Global: #66685 in November 2006

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #226385 in October 2011
• Global: #312676 in October 2011

There are 14 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	Hebrew (he) עקרון רצף הפאונה		30.8889
2	Spanish (es) Principio de sucesión faunística		19.0154
3	Galician (gl) Principio de sucesión faunística		17.8052
4	Catalan (ca) Principi de successió faunística		15.4586
5	Dutch (nl) Principe van fossielopeenvolging		13.9095
6	Chinese (zh) 化石层序律		13.4777
7	Italian (it) Principio della successione faunistica		13.2851
8	English (en) Principle of faunal succession		13.2197
9	Arabic (ar) مبدأ تعاقب الحياة		10.8695
10	Portuguese (pt) Princípio de sucessão faunística		10.8046

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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

The most popular language versions of the article "Principle of faunal succession" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Principle of faunal succession		383 332
2	Spanish (es) Principio de sucesión faunística		102 456
3	Japanese (ja) 地層同定の法則		37 240
4	Portuguese (pt) Princípio de sucessão faunística		17 795
5	Arabic (ar) مبدأ تعاقب الحياة		15 199
6	Italian (it) Principio della successione faunistica		11 235
7	Chinese (zh) 化石层序律		8 419
8	Hebrew (he) עקרון רצף הפאונה		5 385
9	Dutch (nl) Principe van fossielopeenvolging		3 862
10	Estonian (et) Smithi reegel		3 318

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Principle of faunal succession" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Principle of faunal succession		967
2	Spanish (es) Principio de sucesión faunística		100
3	Japanese (ja) 地層同定の法則		82
4	Chinese (zh) 化石层序律		59
5	Portuguese (pt) Princípio de sucessão faunística		44
6	Italian (it) Principio della successione faunistica		32
7	Dutch (nl) Principe van fossielopeenvolging		20
8	Catalan (ca) Principi de successió faunística		18
9	Basque (eu) Faunaren ondorengotza printzipioa		16
10	Hebrew (he) עקרון רצף הפאונה		12

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

Language versions of the article "Principle of faunal succession" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Principle of faunal succession		64
2	Italian (it) Principio della successione faunistica		20
3	Spanish (es) Principio de sucesión faunística		18
4	Hebrew (he) עקרון רצף הפאונה		17
5	Japanese (ja) 地層同定の法則		10
6	Dutch (nl) Principe van fossielopeenvolging		9
7	Arabic (ar) مبدأ تعاقب الحياة		5
8	Portuguese (pt) Princípio de sucessão faunística		5
9	Catalan (ca) Principi de successió faunística		4
10	Basque (eu) Faunaren ondorengotza printzipioa		4

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

Language versions of the article "Principle of faunal succession" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Arabic (ar) مبدأ تعاقب الحياة		0
2	Catalan (ca) Principi de successió faunística		0
3	English (en) Principle of faunal succession		0
4	Spanish (es) Principio de sucesión faunística		0
5	Estonian (et) Smithi reegel		0
6	Basque (eu) Faunaren ondorengotza printzipioa		0
7	Persian (fa) اصل جانشینی زیاگان		0
8	Galician (gl) Principio de sucesión faunística		0
9	Hebrew (he) עקרון רצף הפאונה		0
10	Italian (it) Principio della successione faunistica		0

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

Language versions of the article "Principle of faunal succession" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Principle of faunal succession		83
2	Arabic (ar) مبدأ تعاقب الحياة		38
3	Chinese (zh) 化石层序律		24
4	Spanish (es) Principio de sucesión faunística		23
5	Persian (fa) اصل جانشینی زیاگان		23
6	Japanese (ja) 地層同定の法則		11
7	Catalan (ca) Principi de successió faunística		9
8	Hebrew (he) עקרון רצף הפאונה		9
9	Italian (it) Principio della successione faunistica		9
10	Estonian (et) Smithi reegel		7

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic مبدأ تعاقب الحياة
ca	Catalan Principi de successió faunística
en	English Principle of faunal succession
es	Spanish Principio de sucesión faunística
et	Estonian Smithi reegel
eu	Basque Faunaren ondorengotza printzipioa
fa	Persian اصل جانشینی زیاگان
gl	Galician Principio de sucesión faunística
he	Hebrew עקרון רצף הפאונה
it	Italian Principio della successione faunistica
ja	Japanese 地層同定の法則
nl	Dutch Principe van fossielopeenvolging
pt	Portuguese Princípio de sucessão faunística
zh	Chinese 化石层序律

Best Rank

English: #226385 10.2011

Global: #312676 10.2011

Best Rank

English: #28687 11.2006

Global: #66685 11.2006

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