Talk:Mononykus

Nomenclature of Mononykus

Mononykus 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

Reference: 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Isn't the mole comparison an outdated idea from the early 90s? That quote from Storrs Olson appears very much outdated.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

Mononykus 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

Mononykus Temporal range: Late Cretaceous,
Reconstructed skeleton
Scientific classification
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
Binomial name
†Mononykus olecranus (Perle et al., 1993)
Synonyms
Mononychus olecranus Perle et al., 1993 (preoccupied)

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

Mononykus was featured in episode 2 of Prehistoric Planet IndoBoy Official (talk) 20:21, 11 June 2022 (UTC)