Nuthetes
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. As a dromaeosaurid, Nuthetes would have been a small predator.
| Nuthetes Temporal range: Early Cretaceous, | |
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| 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 | |
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