- many
reconstructions of
Mononykus in art and
mounted skeletons in
museums are in fact
based mainly on Shuvuuia.
While Mononykus was
formally described...
- name to
Mononykus,
because the
earlier spelling was
already the
genus name of an
extant beetle.
Perle et al.
mistakenly described Mononykus as a member...
- ear
anatomy with barn owls, it is
theorized that the
feathered dinosaur Mononykus may also have had a
facial disc. Choiniere,
Jonah N.; Neenan,
James M...
- the Alvarezsauridae, a
family which includes such taxa as the
Mongolian Mononykus and the
Argentinian Alvarezsaurus. In 2010
Gregory S. Paul
estimated its...
-
defined as a
clade by Luis
Chiappe in 1995 as the last
common ancestor of
Mononykus and
modern birds, and all its descendants.
Pennaraptora (Latin
penna "bird...
-
Alvarezsaurus is
considered basal to better-known
members of its family, such as
Mononykus and Shuvuuia. It has been
alternately classified with both non-avian theropod...
- the
second alvarezsaur known from the
Nemegt Formation, the
other being Mononykus. In 2008, the Korea-Mongolia
International Dinosaur Expedition at the...
-
which do not show all bird-like
features as the
first discovered species Mononykus and Shuvuuia. This
shows that bird-like
characteristics were developed...
- vertebrae. The
vertebral centra expand slightly more
wider than
those of
Mononykus and are
slightly more
narrower than
those of Shuvuuia. The diapophyses...
- Sinosauropteryx, and
perhaps Juravenator and Scipionyx. At one time,
Mononykus was
proposed as a
member of the family, but this was
rejected by Chen...
