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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	Not linked to a GBIF record.
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	290135	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=290135

Rank

unranked clade (PBDB)

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Saurischia : Avetheropoda : Mononykini

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Triploblastica	Lankester 1877
-	Nephrozoa	Jondelius et al. 2002
-	Deuterostomia	Grobben 1908
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1847
subphylum	Vertebrata	Lamarck 1801
superclass	Gnathostomata	Gegenbauer 1874
-	Osteichthyes
-	Sarcopterygii	Romer 1955
subclass	Dipnotetrapodomorpha
subclass	Tetrapodomorpha
-	Tetrapoda
-	Reptiliomorpha	Säve-Söderbergh 1934
-	Anthracosauria	Säve-Söderbergh 1934
-	Batrachosauria
-	Cotylosauria
-	Amniota	Haeckel 1866
-	Sauropsida	Huxley 1864
class	Reptilia	Laurenti 1768
subclass	Eureptilia
-	Romeriida	Gauthier et al. 1988
-	Diapsida
-	Eosuchia
-	Neodiapsida	Benton 1985
-	Sauria	Gauthier 1984
-	Archosauromorpha
-	Crocopoda	Ezcurra 2016
-	Archosauriformes	Gauthier 1986
-	Eucrocopoda	Ezcurra 2016
-	Archosauria
informal	Avemetatarsalia	Benton 1999
-	Ornithodira	Gauthier 1986
-	Dinosauromorpha	Benton 1985
-	Dinosauriformes	Novas 1992
-	Dinosauria
-	Saurischia
-	Theropoda
-	Neotheropoda	Bakker 1986
-	Averostra	Paul 2002
-	Tetanurae	Gauthier 1986
order	Avetheropoda	Paul 1988
suborder	Coelurosauria	Huene 1914
-	Maniraptora	Gauthier 1986
superfamily	Alvarezsauroidea	Choiniere et al. 2010
subfamily	Parvicursorinae
-	Mononykini	Chiappe et al. 1998

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Mononykini	subfamily	belongs to Alvarezsauridae	stated without evidence	Chiappe et al., 1998
Mononykini	subfamily	belongs to Alvarezsauridae	stated with evidence	Chiappe et al., 2002
Mononykini	subfamily	belongs to Alvarezsauridae	stated without evidence	Suzuki et al., 2002
Mononykini	subfamily	belongs to Alvarezsauridae	stated with evidence	Martinelli and Vera, 2007
Mononykini	subfamily	subjective synonym of Parvicursorinae	stated with evidence	Choiniere et al., 2010
Mononykini	unranked clade	belongs to Parvicursorinae	stated with evidence	Agnolin et al., 2012

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

83.6 - 72.1 Ma
Late/Upper Cretaceous

Last Recorded Appearance

70.6 - 66.0 Ma
Late/Upper Cretaceous

Environment

terrestrial (based on Theropoda)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Theropoda)

Diet

carnivore (based on Coelurosauria)

Reproduction

oviparous, dispersal=direct/internal,mobile (based on Theropoda)

Ontogeny

accretion,modification of parts (based on Theropoda)

Taphonomy

hydroxylapatite,compact or dense (based on Theropoda)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

L. M. Chiappe, M. A. Norell, and J. M. Clark. 1998. The skull of a relative of the stem-group bird Mononykus. Nature 392:275-278

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Albertonykus ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)	Alberta Claw	1	70.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	70.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Mononykus ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)		5	83.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	72.1 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Shuuvuia ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1998	Mononykinae Chiappe et al. p. 276
2002	Mononykinae Chiappe et al. p. 90
2002	Mononykinae Suzuki et al. p. 2
2007	Mononykinae Martinelli and Vera pp. 13-14 fig. 11
2009	Mononykinae Longrich and Currie p. 246 fig. 11
2012	Mononykini Agnolin et al. p. 47

References

Chiappe L. M., Norell M. A., et al (1998) The skull of a relative of the stem-group bird Mononykus, Nature 392, 275-278

Martinelli A. G., Vera E. I. (2007) Achillesaurus manzzonei, a new alvarezsaurid theropod (Dinosauria) from the Late Cretaceous Bajo de la Carpa Formation, Río Negro Province, Argentina, Zootaxa 1582, 1-17

Longrich N. R., Currie P. J. (2009) Albertonykus borealis, a new alvarezsaur (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from the Early Maastrichtian of Alberta, Canada: implications for the systematics and ecology of the Alvarezsauridae, Cretaceous Research 30 1, 239-252 doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2008.07.005

Agnolin F. L., Powell J. E., et al (2012) New alvarezsaurid (Dinosauria, Theropoda) from uppermost Cretaceous of north-western Patagonia with associated eggs, Cretaceous Research 35 1, 33-56 doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2011.11.014

Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!

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