- Type of dinosaur:
- small theropod
- Length:
- 1.0m
- Diet:
- unknown
- When it lived:
- Late Cretaceous, 81–68 million years ago
- Found in:
- China,
- Mongolia
Mononykus is known from partial skeletons.
Taxonomic details
- Taxonomy:
- Dinosauria, Saurischia, Theropoda, Neotheropoda, Tetanurae, Avetheropoda, Coelurosauria, Tyrannoraptora, Maniraptoriformes, Maniraptora, Alvarezsauridae
- Named by:
- Perle, Norell, Chiappe and Clark (1993)
- Type species:
- olecranus
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