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Nomenclature of Mononykus
editMononykus was originally named Mononychus in 1993, but later that year, the name was changed to Mononykus because Mononychus had already been used for a beetle named by Johann Schueppel, a German entomologist.
- Mononychus presently redirects here. It shouldn't. Dysmorodrepanis 04:11, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
Similarity to moles
editReference: http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1511/is_n1_v15/ai_14891471 You can find more references by searching for the terms: mole keeled sternum wrist Sittingduck123 07:25, 12 December 2006 (UTC)
- Isn't the mole comparison an outdated idea from the early 90s? That quote from Storrs Olson appears very much outdated. It is from 12 years ago. Firsfron of Ronchester 07:40, 12 December 2006 (UTC)
Missing Link
editMononykus was at first thought to be a link between birds and dinosaurs. It was even featured on the cover of TIME Magazine in 1993 http://www.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,19930426,00.html — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2602:306:2594:6749:CBB:2271:F6C5:6050 (talk) 03:03, 17 July 2012 (UTC)
Changing Speciesbox to show extra taxon
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| Mononykus Temporal range: Late Cretaceous,
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| Reconstructed skeleton | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Dinosauria |
| Clade: | Saurischia |
| Clade: | Theropoda |
| Family: | †Alvarezsauridae |
| Tribe: | †Mononykini |
| Genus: | †Mononykus Perle et al., 1993 |
| Species: | †M. olecranus
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| Binomial name | |
| †Mononykus olecranus (Perle et al., 1993)
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Mononychus olecranus Perle et al., 1993 | |
The operation of Template:Speciesbox is being changed to automatically show an extra taxon when the {{PAGENAME}} is a genus, as with Mononykus also showing the branch name "Mononykini" (see example Speciesbox at right).
The extra taxon will be listed when a {Speciesbox} is placed on any page where the wiki-variable {{PAGENAME}} is the name of any genus, such as on this page (Talk:Mononykus) or even a project page named "WP:Mononykus" or placing the Mononykus {Speciesbox} inside the article of any other genus, such as in article "Acacia" where the PAGENAME "Acacia" has the rank as a plant genus. -Wikid77 (talk) 12:41, 29 November 2012 (UTC)
- Excellent change, thank you! It was extremely time consuming to add immediate parent taxa to literally every article via always_display or display_parents, when for ease of navigation alone this should obviously be the default behavior. MMartyniuk (talk) 18:47, 29 November 2012 (UTC)
Popular media
editMononykus was featured in episode 2 of Prehistoric Planet IndoBoy Official (talk) 20:21, 11 June 2022 (UTC)