Portions of the holotype mandible and close up of a tooth
Scientific classification
Domain:
Eukaryota
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Clade:
Dinosauria
Clade:
Saurischia
Clade:
Theropoda
Family:
†Dromaeosauridae
Clade:
†Eudromaeosauria
Subfamily:
†Velociraptorinae
Genus:
†Nuthetes Owen, 1854
Species:
†N. destructor
Binomial name
†Nuthetes destructor
Owen, 1854
Synonyms
Megalosaurus destructor (Steel, 1970)
Nuthetes is the name given to a genus of theropod dinosaur, likely a dromaeosaurid, known only from fossil teeth and jaw fragments found in rocks of the middle Berriasian (Early Cretaceous) age in the Cherty Freshwater Member of the Lulworth Formation in England and also the Angeac-Charente bonebed in France. If it was a dromaeosaurid, Nuthetes would have been a small predator.
a Nuthetes sp. Some large specimens referred to Nuthetes may instead belong to Dromaeosauroides. Additional teeth have been attributed to Nuthetes from...
the juvenile holotype specimen of Nuthetes has dromaeosaurid characteristics. Large specimens referred to Nuthetes appear to belong to true dromaeosaurs...
Durlstodon (left foreground) ventured out at night to hunt insects. The theropod Nuthetes holding a captured Durlstotherium (centre middle distance)....
theropod group Dromaeosauridae. The earliest velociraptorines are probably Nuthetes from the United Kingdom, and possibly Deinonychus from North America. However...
Berriasian and Hauterivian stage of the Early Cretaceous. The Berriasian taxon Nuthetes destructor and several indeterminate teeth dating to the Kimmeridgian stage...
dinosaurs it lived alongside include the ornithopod Owenodon and the theropod Nuthetes, which are both also fragmentary. An abundance of small mammals also lived...
from the fossil record until the Late Cretaceous. This would mean that Nuthetes and other dubious genera are potential proceratosaurids. Below is the cladogram...
incognitus Huene 1932 into Megalosaurus incognitus. Secondly, he renamed Nuthetes destructor Owen 1854 into Megalosaurus destructor. Both genera are today...
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