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Mononykus, the Glossary

Mononykus (sometimes; meaning "one claw") is a genus of alvarezsaurid dinosaur that lived during the Late Cretaceous in what is now Asia on the Nemegt Formation, about 70 million years ago.^[1]

28 relations: Alvarezsauridae, American Museum of Natural History, Anteater, Asia, Beetle, Dinosaur, Djadochta Formation, Entomology, Facial disc, Feather, Foraging, Gobi Desert, Gobiraptor, Holotype, Inner ear, Integument, Late Cretaceous, Mononychus, Mound-building termites, Nemegt Formation, Nemegtonykus, Parvicursor, Roy Chapman Andrews, Shuvuuia, Stress fracture, Termite, Vestigiality, Wrist.
Alvarezsaurs
Nemegt fauna
Taxa named by Altangerel Perle

Alvarezsauridae

Alvarezsauridae is a family of small, long-legged dinosaurs. Mononykus and Alvarezsauridae are alvarezsaurs.

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American Museum of Natural History

The American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) is a natural history museum on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City.

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Anteater

Anteaters are the four extant mammal species in the suborder Vermilingua (meaning "worm tongue"), commonly known for eating ants and termites.

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Asia

Asia is the largest continent in the world by both land area and population.

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Beetle

Beetles are insects that form the order Coleoptera, in the superorder Holometabola.

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Dinosaur

Dinosaurs are a diverse group of reptiles of the clade Dinosauria.

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The Djadochta Formation (sometimes transcribed and also known as Djadokhta, Djadokata, or Dzhadokhtskaya) is a highly fossiliferous geological formation situated in Central Asia, Gobi Desert, dating from the Late Cretaceous period, about 75 million to 71 million years ago.

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Entomology

Entomology is the scientific study of insects, a branch of zoology.

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Facial disc

In ornithology, the facial disc is the concave collection of feathers on the face of some birds—most notably owls—surrounding the eyes.

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Feather

Feathers are epidermal growths that form a distinctive outer covering, or plumage, on both avian (bird) and some non-avian dinosaurs and other archosaurs.

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Foraging

Foraging is searching for wild food resources.

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Gobi Desert

The Gobi Desert (Говь) is a large, cold desert and grassland region in northern China and southern Mongolia and is the sixth largest desert in the world.

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Gobiraptor

Gobiraptor is a genus of oviraptorid maniraptoran dinosaur from the Maastrichtian-age Nemegt Formation of Mongolia. Mononykus and Gobiraptor are late Cretaceous dinosaurs of Asia and Nemegt fauna.

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Holotype

A holotype is a single physical example (or illustration) of an organism used when the species (or lower-ranked taxon) was formally described.

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Inner ear

The inner ear (internal ear, auris interna) is the innermost part of the vertebrate ear.

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Integument

In biology, an integument is the tissue surrounding an organism's body or an organ within, such as skin, a husk, shell, germ or rind.

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Late Cretaceous

The Late Cretaceous (100.5–66 Ma) is the younger of two epochs into which the Cretaceous Period is divided in the geologic time scale.

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Mononychus

Mononychus is a genus of minute seed weevils in the family of beetles known as Curculionidae.

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Mound-building termites

Mound-building termites are a group of termite species that live in mounds which are made of a combination of soil, termite saliva and dung.

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Nemegt Formation

The Nemegt Formation (also known as Nemegtskaya Svita) is a geological formation in the Gobi Desert of Mongolia, dating to the Late Cretaceous.

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Nemegtonykus

Nemegtonykus (meaning "Nemegt claw" after the Nemegt Formation where it was found) is a genus of alvarezsaurid dinosaur from the Nemegt Formation in Mongolia. Mononykus and Nemegtonykus are alvarezsaurs, late Cretaceous dinosaurs of Asia and Nemegt fauna.

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Parvicursor

Parvicursor (meaning "small runner") is a genus of tiny maniraptoran dinosaur with long slender legs for fast running. Mononykus and Parvicursor are alvarezsaurs and late Cretaceous dinosaurs of Asia.

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Roy Chapman Andrews

Roy Chapman Andrews (January 26, 1884 – March 11, 1960) was an American explorer, adventurer, and naturalist who became the director of the American Museum of Natural History.

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Shuvuuia

Shuvuuia is a genus of bird-like theropod dinosaur from the late Cretaceous period of Mongolia. Mononykus and Shuvuuia are alvarezsaurs and late Cretaceous dinosaurs of Asia.

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Stress fracture

A stress fracture is a fatigue-induced bone fracture caused by repeated stress over time.

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Termite

Termites are a group of detritophagous eusocial insects which consume a wide variety of decaying plant material, generally in the form of wood, leaf litter, and soil humus.

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Vestigiality

Vestigiality is the retention, during the process of evolution, of genetically determined structures or attributes that have lost some or all of the ancestral function in a given species.

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Wrist

In human anatomy, the wrist is variously defined as (1) the carpus or carpal bones, the complex of eight bones forming the proximal skeletal segment of the hand; "The wrist contains eight bones, roughly aligned in two rows, known as the carpal bones." (2) the wrist joint or radiocarpal joint, the joint between the radius and the carpus and; (3) the anatomical region surrounding the carpus including the distal parts of the bones of the forearm and the proximal parts of the metacarpus or five metacarpal bones and the series of joints between these bones, thus referred to as wrist joints.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mononykus

Also known as Mononychus olecranus, Mononykus olecranus.