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Mononykus

genus of reptiles (fossil)
Taxon fossil_taxon Q131421
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Summary

Mononykus is a fossil taxon[1]. Mononykus ranks in the top 3% of fossil taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (792 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Taxon rank: genus[3]
  • Parent taxon: Mononykini[4]
  • Location of discovery: People's Republic of China[5]
  • Taxon name: Mononykus[6]
  • Commons category: Mononykus[7]
  • Replaced synonym (for nom. nov.): Mononychus Altangerel & al. (1993) non Germar (1824)[8]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Mononykus[9]
  • Length: 1.0 m[10]
  • Time period: Late Cretaceous[11]
  • Taxon author citation: Perle et al., 1993[12]

Body

Identifiers

Mononykus's Encyclopedia of Life ID is recorded as 4433699[13]. Mononykus's GBIF taxon ID is recorded as 3238996[14].

Why It Matters

Mononykus has Wikipedia articles in 25 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[15] Mononykus is known by 21 alternative names across languages and contexts.[16]

Related Entities

People's Republic of China

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . nhm.ac.uk. nhm.ac.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [13] ↑ . Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  8. [14] ↑ . Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  9. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [10] ↑ . nhm.ac.uk. nhm.ac.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  11. [11] ↑ . nhm.ac.uk. nhm.ac.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  12. [12] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [15] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [16] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 2d ago · Rebot bot · 2026-10-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikipedia languages → ['ar', 'ban', 'ca', 'ceb', 'cs', 'de', 'en', 'es', 'fa', 'fi', 'fr', 'he', 'hu',
    Taxon author citation → Perle et al., 1993
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Taxon author citation: Perle et al., 1993, Bot: importing authority taxon citation from Catalan Wikipedia"
  2. 8w ago · Yapy28 · 2026-08-16 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Length → {'unit': 'Q11573', 'amount': '+1.0'}
    Time period → Late Cretaceous
    Location of discovery → People's Republic of China
    Taxon rank → genus
    + 8 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/47825|batch #47825]]: OENN batch"
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