Plesiosaur

Quality:

Plesiosauria - extinct order from the superorder of Sauropterygia. This taxon is the 934^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of taxon and the 596^th most popular taxon in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “Plesiosaur” in Simple English Wikipedia has 35.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 10 references and 6 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Simple English Wikipedia:

The 596^th most popular in taxon in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 934^th most popular in taxon.

Since the creation of article “Plesiosaur”, its content was written by 19 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1251 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Plesiosauria is on the 596^th place in local ranking of taxon in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 934^th place in global ranking of taxon in all the time.

The article is cited 56 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 5195 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #541 in December 2009
• Global: #8452 in November 2011

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #4437 in November 2025
• Global: #6182 in April 2015

There are 36 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, 2026 (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	Dutch (nl) Plesiosauria		96.335
2	English (en) Plesiosaur		90.3029
3	French (fr) Plesiosauria		87.9946
4	Latin (la) Plesiosauria		71.824
5	German (de) Plesiosaurier		45.2926
6	Persian (fa) پلسیوسورها		44.9644
7	Spanish (es) Plesiosauria		42.8605
8	Chinese (zh) 蛇頸龍目		41.9219
9	Czech (cs) Plesiosauria		38.2484
10	Vietnamese (vi) Thằn lằn đầu rắn		38.0402

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Plesiosaur		5 186 824
2	Spanish (es) Plesiosauria		1 098 192
3	German (de) Plesiosaurier		940 462
4	Japanese (ja) 首長竜		824 248
5	Russian (ru) Плезиозавры		732 987
6	Italian (it) Plesiosauria		365 705
7	Portuguese (pt) Plesiosauria		339 043
8	French (fr) Plesiosauria		314 801
9	Chinese (zh) 蛇頸龍目		288 776
10	Polish (pl) Plezjozaury		267 406

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Plesiosaur		16 792
2	Russian (ru) Плезиозавры		2 811
3	German (de) Plesiosaurier		2 589
4	Japanese (ja) 首長竜		1 973
5	Italian (it) Plesiosauria		1 802
6	Spanish (es) Plesiosauria		1 588
7	French (fr) Plesiosauria		1 183
8	Chinese (zh) 蛇頸龍目		977
9	Polish (pl) Plezjozaury		839
10	Portuguese (pt) Plesiosauria		614

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Plesiosaur		276
2	German (de) Plesiosaurier		153
3	Dutch (nl) Plesiosauria		83
4	Spanish (es) Plesiosauria		76
5	French (fr) Plesiosauria		71
6	Russian (ru) Плезиозавры		62
7	Italian (it) Plesiosauria		61
8	Japanese (ja) 首長竜		45
9	Hebrew (he) פלזיוזאוריה		41
10	Catalan (ca) Plesiosaures (ordre)		25

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Plesiosaur		2
2	Arabic (ar) بليزوصورات		1
3	Catalan (ca) Plesiosaures (ordre)		1
4	Czech (cs) Plesiosauria		1
5	German (de) Plesiosaurier		1
6	Spanish (es) Plesiosauria		1
7	French (fr) Plesiosauria		1
8	Hebrew (he) פלזיוזאוריה		1
9	Japanese (ja) 首長竜		1
10	Russian (ru) Плезиозавры		1

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

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