mononykus造句

• "Mononykus " is usually reconstructed with a covering of feathers.
• "Mononykus " is currently represented by a single holotype specimen, catalog number IGM N107 / 6.
• Close relatives include " Shuvuuia " and " Mononykus ", and together with these it is classified in the alvarezsaurid subfamily Parvicursorinae.
• A month later they changed the genus name to " Mononykus ", because the earlier spelling was already the genus name of an extant beetle.
• Because of this, many reconstructions of " Mononykus " in art and mounted skeletons in museums are in fact based mainly on " Shuvuuia ".
• This group was defined as a clade by Luis Chiappe in 1995 as the last common ancestor of " Mononykus " and modern birds, and all its descendants.
• While " Mononykus " was formally described in the 1990s, it was reported that a specimen possibly belonging this genus had already been unearthed by the Andrews expedition decades before.
• In a 2001 study conducted by Bruce Rothschild and other paleontologists, 15 foot bones referred to " Mononykus " were examined for signs of stress fracture, but none were found.
• However, given the reassignment of the other specimens to related genera, and the difference in age ( the AMNH specimen is from the older Djadochta Formation ), it is unlikely to be " Mononykus ".
• An ostrich-sized dinosaur found in Patagonia, called Patagonykus, is almost a twin of a species found in Mongolia called Mononykus, yet they evolved during the period when there was supposedly no contact between the two supercontinents.
• Several other specimens were later misclassified as " Mononykus ", including specimens with partial tails ( initially misinterpreted as being very short, though later specimens showed they were long and thin ) and complete skulls showing a distinct, mostly toothless form.
• Researchers last summer also found the first known skull of a turkey-size flightless bird called Mononykus, and eight skeletons of two-legged dinosaurs called oviraptors, including one unusually big one measuring about three meters ( 10 feet ) from its head to the tip of its whip-like tail, Novacek said.
• There, on a lush river delta flowing through the ancient sands of the Gobi Desert, " Nemegtosaurus " would have coexisted with animals like the ornithomimid " Gallimimus ", the alvarezsaurid " Mononykus ", the velociraptorine " Adasaurus ", and the giant, saber-clawed therizinosaur " Therizinosaurus ".
• Its large eyes might have allowed " Mononykus " to hunt by night, when it was cooler and there would have been fewer predators about . " Mononykus " was originally named " Mononychus " in 1993, but later that year, it was renamed because the original name had already been used for a beetle named by Johann Schueppel, a German entomologist.
• Its large eyes might have allowed " Mononykus " to hunt by night, when it was cooler and there would have been fewer predators about . " Mononykus " was originally named " Mononychus " in 1993, but later that year, it was renamed because the original name had already been used for a beetle named by Johann Schueppel, a German entomologist.
• Novas'1996 description of " Patagonykus ", demonstrated that it was a link between the more primitive ( basal ) " Alvarezsaurus " and the more advanced ( derived ) " Mononykus ", and reinforced their monophyly . " Parvicursor " was discovered shortly after, and placed in its own family Parvicursoridae, and then " Shuvuuia " in 1998.
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