Mononychus mo-NO-nychu
"Etymology TBD"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Mononychus 1 m (3.3 ft) long
2 people holding hands
- Length
- 1 m (3.3 ft)
- Period
- Late Cretaceous (83.6–66 Mya)
- Place
- Unknown locality
- Food
- Carnivore
- Clade
- Alvarezsauridae
Mononychus is a alvarezsauridae known from the Cretaceous period, of uncertain origin. Most of what’s published comes from a small number of specimens, and the fuller picture of how it lived is still being worked out.
What we know
- Originally named by Perle et al. 1993.